Quotes About Perspective

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

That was a tremendous learning experience," said McCarthy. "Never judge a book by its cover; open it up. If you treat a kid who is buying a $19.95 belt the same as a businessman buying a $1,995 Oxford suit, you will be successful. That kid might become a customer for life.

There are three groups of people with respect to empowerment: Those who get it. Those who really want to get it. Those who probably will never get it.

No one manages until he or she has "walked in the shoes" of those being managed.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.

In the words of the Cambridge don Roger Ascham, Elizabeth I's tutor, one should "speak as the common people do…think as wise men do." Thomas

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

You must be dumber than you think I think you are.

However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don't.

A kind of bias I share says that if a human thinks symmetry is important it may or may not be, but if a bird thinks symmetry is important, it very likely is!

Doctors think they are more important in their patients' lives than their patients do.

We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

A tragedy on earth might ultimately be revealed as a triumph in heaven.

But life doesn't always imitate art.

We have regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude.

much-anticipated, long-awaited epiphany is actually a brief, quiet, simple shift in perspective from the one who is looking for That, to the recognition that it is That which is looking.

The world is your thought.