Quotes About Perspective

I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.

Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself

Look down on me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a god. Look straight at me and you see yourself.

Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.

It's amazing what we value when we're at our lowest.

Puzzles forced me to look at something from several angles before I moved on, to look again, and again, and possibly again because each piece—no matter how small or seemingly insignificant—was critical to the whole.

Somebody told me when I first got in this business that people believe what they read until somebody prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.

I stood and pulled her up on two feet. "That depends." "On what?" "Whether you're looking at this through my eyes or yours.

there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment.

Thinking about life and how short it is. How we're always just a breath away from overturned in the ditch with a fireman cutting you out with the Jaws of Life. It was just one of those moments where I knew, really knew, that life is not guaranteed. That I take it for granted. I wake up each day thinking I'll wake up tomorrow, too. It's not necessarily true.

Pessimist, are you?" "I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.

See it?" ... "Yeah." ... "How in the world did you see that in the first place?" "Don't know." "It's hard to make out." "Give it about ten minutes..." So we waited. Trying not to look at it so much that it lost all meaning. Like a word you say over and over until you're only hearing what it sounds like and you've forgotten what it means.

My life has been real different than I thought. Ain't turned out how I hoped . . . nor dreamt. But I'm not the only man in the world to get screwed by life. Lots are worse off than me. That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

Life at seventeen seemed so clear.

Never argue with a woman about her house. Remember that. It's hers, not yours." He waved his paint-brush toward the kitchen and whispered, "I may have built it, but in truth, we're just lucky she lets us sleep here.

You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

People believe what they read until someone prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.

when I looked up, the world got a lot bigger. That's one thing Unc did from the start—he made the world a lot bigger.

That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is." He

It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.

My life has been real different than I thought. Ain't turned out how I hoped . . . nor dreamt. But I'm not the only man in the world to get screwed by life. Lots are worse off than me. That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too." "You

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Unstructured chat with such friends has helped me understand Mrs Thatcher, the woman. (page xxvi)