Quotes About Perspective

The son changed the focus from the negative ("Sell the house") to the positive ("Try this new arrangement for six weeks"). In other words, don't just tell the other to stop doing something you don't want; ask them to start doing something you do want.

You can empathize without sympathizing.

There is much truth in the remark that we see only that which we look for, and to look energetically we must consciously look for something.

It is an optical fact that no two persons ever saw the same rainbow, and it is equally true that no two men ever saw the same appearance in any object.

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

posicionamiento", un concepto popular que se utiliza para indicar cómo debe ubicarse la gente en la mente de otros

You know, an old man like me can teach a young boy like you all the good things in life. But it takes a young boy like you to teach an old man like me to appreciate all the good things in life. I guess that's what life's all about.

women are a little different than men.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's openly?

the more opinions you have, the less you see

For me, black and white is more realistic than colour. Black and white can be colourful, and colour can be very black and white.

Eugene saw that God-part of people. He saw that and defined me in that way. The other stuff didn't define me. That was astounding. -Cuba Odneal

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the same thing. Such information is no use at all! It bounces off one's own grief – or jealousy or distress. If we are all born the same we are also all born unique – we all go through torments nobody else has ever had.