Quotes About Perspective

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

The medium is the message.

Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts, man comes pretty close to living in a house that language built.

Who does not know another language, does not know his own.

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.