Quotes About Perspective

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

I would disagree with fight or flight. That leaves no room for compromise and understanding.

No can be a love word.

Even today, authors who claim correctly, as Patrick Buchanan does in his book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that both World War I and World War II were "unnecessary wars" are shunned and ridiculed. Such a suggestion is so at odds with how history is taught in most US schools that many people are unwilling to even consider arguments backing Buchanan's conclusion.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Taking a stance on an issue and supporting that stance with sound reasoning is an important skill. However, taking a stance on issues too quickly and rushing to defend

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party.

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content.

Some things about being human can't be learned from your own kind..

To diagnose a system or yourself while in the midst of action requires the ability to achieve some distance from those on-the-ground events. We use the metaphor of "getting on the balcony" above the "dance floor" to depict what it means to gain the distanced perspective you need to see what is really happening.

The person who has a disproportionate need for control, who is too hungry for power, is susceptible to losing sight of the work.

Protagoras first wrote a phrase to which we shall have to return many times in this book: "Man is the measure of all things." As Toynbee writes, if we were to take that phrase out of Greek language and put it into Judeo-Christian language, "we should say the Hellenes saw in Man 'the Lord of Creation,' and worshipped him as an idol in the place of God.

Interpret the new situation in the best light.

That was the way he had lived his whole life. To him things were simple. You reached out and took, and if you felt like it, you gave, with the intensity you wanted to give with.

Takes one motherfucker to know another.

one drink did not a drunk make