Quotes About Perspective

Perhaps the book's greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Looked at absolutely, we must frankly acknowledge that we have fallen very far short indeed of the high ideal we should have reached. Looked at relatively, it must also be said that we have done better than any other nation or race working under our conditions.

Mantén tus ojos en las estrellas, y tus pies en la tierra

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

Now and then I am asked as to 'what books a statesman should read,' and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?" "It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

Nothing is always absolutely so

a Virgin Islan'." "Then you are American," I said. I remembered from school that we had bought the Virgins from Denmark. He laughed. "I suppose, young bahss. I nevar gave it much thought. I sail all d'islan's, as well as Venezuela, Colombo, Panama.… I jus' nevar gave

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

Anlamak, anlaÅŸmazl??? ortadan kald?rmaz, ama anlaÅŸmazl??? zenginlik veren bir deneyime dönüÅŸtürür; insanda, insanl???n çeÅŸitliliÄŸinin gizemli dünyas?na kabul edildiÄŸine ve yaln?zca k?smen ya??yor olmaktan kurtulabileceÄŸine dair bir his yarat?r.

Everything that is remembered about the past is washed, and often drowned, in nostalgia, pride, illusions and passions of all kinds.

I have chosen to write about women, because I am not one myself, and because I have always preferred to write about subjects which do not tempt me to be so arrogant as to believe that I can ever fully understand them, but above all because many women seem to me to be looking at life with fresh eyes, and their autobiographies, in various forms, are the most original part of contemporary literature

Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.

Don't piss on my Utopia.

Enid thought everybody was like her, they just didn't know it yet. And that someday they would come around, realizing what fools they'd always been by clinging to ideals that got them nowhere. Enid

All his life he'd viewed the world from a skewed perspective. And now he'd finally met someone who was seeing the same world he was seeing. That was a good feeling. Talking

Is that the way you get through life? By not thinking?" she asked. "Works for me." She couldn't imagine living like that. Just existing. For her, life was analyzing things. Life was reactions. And emotions. She