Quotes About Perspective

One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees the dirty window

It's not what happens to you that determines your happiness. It's how you think about what happens to you.

The happiest people don't bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.

Life is not THAT serious..let's take humor more seriously !

Whatever thoughts are causing you pain, they are only thoughts. You can change a thought.

When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn't. We just can't see the whole picture.

Your beliefs determine your quality of life

It sounds romantic finding the meaning of life in Tibet, but enlightenment in Tibet is for Tibetans! The meaning of life for most of us is probably in the suburbs.

we don't even know we are being negative when we're being negative.

find some opportunity within the "disaster".

How do you weigh the known versus the unknown? You can't. It all comes down to what statistics you choose to believe.

one of the gifts of science: when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective.

You have a judgmental face." "I'm a scientist. I look at everything this way.

When you're a kid, you just assume your parents were always grown-up.

When Europeans came to the Americas and witnessed Aztec sacrificial rituals, they were coming from a continent with practices that in many ways were equally barbaric, but because they understood the justifications of their own practices, they viewed them differently.

Don't let our skepticism turn into cynicism. Not everyone with a crazy story is crazy.

What have you learned?" She wanted to tell him that he was a peculiar and infuriating young man. "That people don't listen." "Precisely. Just because you can see the problems of an elliptical problem doesn't mean that others will listen. And that's what we do.

your distance isn't because you're far away, it's because you're a thousand feet overhead, trying to look at all the little parts, seeing which ones need to be fixed.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

My solution was to make that a feature, not a bug.

Empire State Building observation

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory.

I've learned that you never win a battle of wills with a crazy person because they don't even know there's a battle.

On the plus side, this really is probably the most baller way anyone could possibly die. So there's that.