Quotes About Perspective

Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

Se existe um segredo para o sucesso, ele consiste na capacidade de entender o ponto de vista do outro e enxergar não só com seus olhos, mas também com os olhos dele", disse Henry Ford.

So when you and I are tempted to criticize someone tomorrow, let's remember Al Capone, "Two Gun" Crowley and Albert Fall. Let's realize that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realize that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself or herself, and condemn us in return; or, like the gentle Taft, will say: "I don't see how I could have done any differently from what I have.

It should be the other way around.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

adopté, en lugar de ellas, 'creo', 'entiendo', o 'imagino

My life," he said, "has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened." So has mine—so has yours.

PRINCIPLE 8 Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.

Pois a vida é curta demais para ser pequena.

It's also likely you would come to appreciate them more.

Welcome the disagreement. Remember the slogan, "When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

About ninety percent of the things in our lives are right and about ten percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that are right and ignore the ten percent that are wrong.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

If you had as much sense as a half-witted hummingbird, you would realize that I am interested in how big I am—not how big you are. All this talk about your enormous success makes me feel small and unimportant.]

get the other person's point of view and see things from his or her angle, as well as from our own.

Here is a method that deserves a whole chapter. Read history! Try to get the viewpoint of ten thousand years—and see how trivial YOUR troubles are, in terms of eternity!

you will become sympathetic to his feelings and ideas.

don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

even if we owned the world with a hog-tight fence around it, we could eat only three meals a day and sleep in one bed at a time—even a ditch digger can do that; and he will probably eat with more gusto and sleep more peacefully than Rockefeller.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? … But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

The seven years I spent with the Arabs convinced me that the neurotics, the insane, the drunks of America and Europe are the product of the hurried and harassed lives we live in our so-called civilization.