Quotes About Perspective

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

See things from the boy's point of view.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.