Quotes About Perspective

Your ability to blank slate is directly related to your ability to rid yourself of expectations and assumptions, two very bad words in my system of negotiation.

In any negotiation, where do we want to spend as much time as possible? In the adversary's world.

The wise negotiator knows that only one person in a negotiation can feel okay, and that person is the adversary.

Behind every great man there is a woman rolling her eyes.

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life doesn't happen to you. It happens for you.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy

If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.

We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.

Since I've been spending my time in nature with animals, I found out that we are the wild savages, and they are the ones who are actually civilized.

We don't matter. There's the good news.

Creo que todo el mundo debería hacerse rico y famoso y conseguir lo que siempre ha soñado para darse cuenta de que no es la solución

You worry too much. Take a shower and get some sleep. You'll feel much better later.' She was precious, my wife. If she couldn't screw it or spend it, she'd sleep on it. And either way, wasn't it better than worrying?

Each story weaves together different viewpoints that-in the words of the sages-oppose one another yet are both true. These themes are the underpinnings of stories, the very motives that drive conflict, compromise, and eventual climax.

The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.

The next time you are faced with an insurmountable problem, I'd advise you to look into the heavens on a clear night.

Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)