Quotes About Perspective

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.

There are two kinds of people: Those who think they can, and those who think they can't, and they're both right.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." ? Henry Ford

Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are correct.

Che tu creda di farcela o no, hai comunque ragione.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.

The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities. I cannot discover that any one knows enough about anything on this earth definitely to say what is and what is not possible.

Whether you think you can or you can't you're right.

Quer você ache que pode, quer ache que não pode, de um jeito ou de outro você está certo.

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economist sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups.

The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others.

He declined to point out 'what appear to us as defects', on the grounds that 'most of them will be obvious' and he had no wish 'to feed the malevolence of little or lazy critics'.1

he was able to laugh at his weakness for fiddly words. When he and Boswell were in the Highlands and passed through Glen Shiel, Boswell described a mountain as 'immense', but Johnson corrected him—'No; it is no more than a considerable protuberance.' NICETY     1.

In Fernand Braudel's chastening phrase, 'Europe is an Asian peninsula.'3 It is a given that Europeans underestimate the scale and resources and history of Asia – and do so recklessly. By looking at English's Arabic connection, we can begin to correct this. Sugar

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Don't underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.