Quotes About Perspective

Schopenhauer: "Raramente pensamos en lo que tenemos, sino siempre en lo que nos falta".

you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression.

it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

they will have come to the same conclusions you've arrived at and the conversation will be a much more positive one.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." —Hans Selye "Worry is the stomach's worst poison." —Alfred

it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Tuve aflicción por no tener zapatos hasta que vi a quien no tenia pies.

Lo más importante que aprendí entonces fue que, si se tiene agua para beber y algo para comer en la medida suficiente, no hay motivo alguno para quejarse

As Dr Johnson said, "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

there are plenty of people willing to share their side of the story

Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other person's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When

I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or a grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?

casi todas las personas son tan felices como se deciden a serlo.

Seeing things through another person's eyes may ease tensions when personal problems become overwhelming.

If, as a result of reading this book, you get only one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of the other person's point of view, and see things from that person's angle as well as your own—if you get only that one thing from this book, it may easily prove to be one of the stepping-stones of your career.

it is more natural to talk about what you want than to talk about what the other person wants; and so on.

You do not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get ulcers from what is eating you.

Our mental attitude is the X factor that determines our fate.

This is why no argument is ever won. You lose the argument, you lose. You win the argument, you lose.

es mucho mejor empezar diciendo: "Bien, escuche. Yo pienso de otro modo, pero quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia... Y si me equivoco, quiero corregir mi error. Examinemos los hechos".

Salah satu cara paling pasti untuk mendapatkan teman dan memengaruhi pendapat orang lain adalah dengan mempertimbangkan pendapat mereka, membiarkan mereka merasa penting.

Bajulação consiste em dizer a um outro homem justamente o que ele pensa acerca de si mesmo.

Gostamos de continuar a acreditar naquilo que nos habituamos a aceitar como verdade, e os ressentimentos despertos quando lançam dúvidas sobre qualquer um dos nossos pressupostos levam-nos a procurar todo o tipo de desculpas para nos agarrarmos a eles.