Quotes About Perspective

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars, because each day is different.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously, they've never heard me tell a joke.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.