Quotes About Perspective

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.

Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.

Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

The important lesson here is that wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

For the illuminated believer, however, the unifying and satisfying element in every circumstance is always the glory of God, not some sentimental, rose-colored view of the situation that makes him feel better about it.

it is impossible to effectively parent from the driver's seat of a minivan.

The point is that all of life is "pointless"—vanity or emptiness—unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

I think we are all better off looking across at someone, rather than up. Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, "There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.

We agreed we're both troubled by the stiff-minded emphasis on the flag that grips much of the country these days. A flag, after all, is still only a cloth symbol. You don't show patriotism by showing blank-eyed love for a bit of cloth. And you can be deeply patriotic without covering your car with flag decals.

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

But 'I worked hard on this' doesn't exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren't about anyone being out to get me. It's not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It's people taking the time to express their opinions because they care about this stuff." [ Us vs. Them vs. Grow the Hell Up (Blog post, September 1, 2013)]

Sure, Death was going to find him sooner or later, but it seemed as though Death were taking the scenic route to get there.

being right is very important to most of us. It is a powerful need, and like all needs, it must be overcome.

We greatly enhance our opportunity for a successful deal by putting the adversary first in our mission and purpose. You make your killing—or just a solid profit—only by entering heart and soul into your adversary's world, business, needs, requirements, hopes, fears, and plans.

They know that what is really said and what we actually hear during a negotiation is far more important than what we allow ourselves to think while others talk. In order to blank slate effectively, the little voice in our own heads must be silent.

you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

win-win is hopelessly misguided as a basis for good negotiating, in business or in your personal life or anywhere else.