Quotes About Perspective

Everything that's ever happened to you or occurred to you in your life informs every decision you make—and also influences what questions you decide to ask. So it can be useful to step back and inquire, Why did I come up with that question?" Burton adds, "Every time you come up with a question, you should be wondering, What are the underlying assumptions of that question? Is there a different question I should be asking?

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air, and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Picasso was onto this truth fifty years ago when he commented, "Computers are useless—they only give31 you answers.

I've always been very concerned with democracy. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?

Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th 1987, you just didn't know it.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Here in Britain, of course, it's Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

The difficulty in telling this story – my whole story, in fact – is that there is no way for me to communicate duration of time to you. It may have taken a minute for you to have read of my position in this punishment cell, but I was in this position for a whole month. How do I convey that notion to you? There are no markers with which I can measure. The only way for you to come close to experiencing this is to read the previous paragraph, over and

a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

When you have a Thai girlfriend you never lose her - you just sometimes lose your place in the queue

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures—provided we will but take a joke as we find it

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. I