Quotes About Perspective

I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me," he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Evren'in gözünde biz küçücük ve önemsiz k?v?lc?mlardan ba?ka bir ?ey de?iliz. Ke?ke bunu unutmama bilgeli?ini gösterebilseydik..

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then perform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

I was working on the principle, you see, that the more obvious you are, the less obvious you are.

Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all.

So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything. And anyway, we're all dead, or never born, and the whole thing really is a dream. There, you see. That's a funny side.

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.

There's no such thing as a boring subject, only a bored listener who hasn't bothered to search for the relevance of the message to them.

If you want to reinforce someone's existing beliefs, attack them.

People with passionate convictions tend to see the world through the lens of their passion - whether psychological, spiritual, or economic - and interpret everything they hear according to whether or not it harmonises with their own one-note samba

Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything

People talk of calf-love with wistful disdain, but mine was as intense as any emotion I knew until I crossed the frontier, years later, when I discovered that all loving is a loving of life in the midst of death.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.