Quotes About Perspective

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.

They say I am 'a winner in life,' but I really am not. Life is never static. There are no such things as winners.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

If winning or losing is going to define your life, you're on a rough road.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

As far as success goes, I've never really got too excited about losing or winning.

If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, 'Look, guys, it's about more than just winning.'

Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

It's easy to get into the competition of F1, and you are never going to win every race even though you want to. So when you're not winning, you want to win, so you're not that happy. But you have to look at the big perspective, and I am very fortunate to be one of 22 in the world to do this.

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.

I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

What annoys me most is it is so easy to focus on negatives all the time. All you hear is a lot of people - whether it is industry leaders or politicians - complaining about everything. I don't deny things are not always perfect, but the stage it gets is huge compared with the simple things that make people happy, like winning a football match.