Quotes About Perspective

Everything in your story world has one of three basic meanings to each character: good, bad, or neutral.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

Are you a Tigger or an Eyore?

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we'd all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

I'm dying and I'm having fun.

Not everything needs to be fixed

Whatever news we get about the scans, I'm not going to die when we hear it. I won't die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I'm enjoying it." I thought about that, and about Jai's smile. I knew then. That's the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.

kita tidak bisa mengubah kartu yang dibagikan kepada kita, hanya bagaimana cara kita memainkan

no matter how bad the circumstance it could always be worse.

That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond.

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Many people might expect the talk to be about dying. But it had to be about living.

Kada sam ga upitao kada ?u umrijeti, on je odgovorio da ?u vjerojatno biti prili?no zdrav sljede?ih tri do šest mjeseci. To me podsjetilo na moje posjete Disneylandu. Kada biste njihove zaposlenike upitali kada se park zatvara oni bi obi?no odgovorili da je park otvoren do osam nave?er.

It doesn't matter how well you polish the underside of the banister." You

For Jai and me, our dented cars became a statement in our marriage. Not everything needs to be fixed.