Quotes About Perspective

Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters.

Though he rejected champagne as too expensive in his last days

I suppose there may be something in what you say, though I had never thought of it in that way before.

And both sides would prove right.

I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.

The next day is Saturday. Like that matters. Like every day isn't just about identical for somebody like me.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing.

Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

He was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he has left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges, Thomas Wolfe declares at the end of Look Homeward, Angel, and those words I spoke aloud to the bathroom mirror that summer, and thought of Wolfe in New York, writing between journeys to the West, and of Hemingway traveling from Paris cafés to African veldts. "YOU'RE

The famed philosopher Diogenes was looking intently at a large collection of human bones piled one upon another. Alexander the Great stood nearby and became curious about what Diogenes was doing. When he asked the old man what he was doing, the rely was, 'I am searching for the bones of your father, but I cannot seem to distinguish them from those of the slaves.' Alexander got the point. All are equal in death.

Lincoln learned self-discipline and the art of case preparation from Logan, who had served previously as a circuit judge and had taught Lincoln to see cases from every possible point of view.

Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?

We all have our little sorrows, ducky, you're not the only one. The littler you are, the larger the sorrow. You think you loved him? What about me?

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

I picture is worth 1000 denials.

But Nancy is right—Presidents don't have vacations—they just have a change of scenery";

Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . .

The reform that is needed is not anti-capitalist, anti-American, or even deep environmentalist; it is simply the transition from short-term to long-term thinking.