Quotes About Perspective

L'homme dit : « Je suis plus intelligent que l'océan. » C'est possible ; c'est même assez vrai ; mais l'océan lui est plus redoutable que lui à l'océan : c'est ce qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de prouver.

Realize that this—the belief that you will be happy if you only get what you want—is an illusion. It's something that allows you to release responsibility for being happy right now, because "someday" everything will line up just right. That day may never come. Happiness isn't getting everything you want. It's appreciating what you have and staying open to the limitless possibilities before you.

One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

It behooves us ill to look back and point fingers, saying, 'Ah, that should not have happened. That should not have been allowed.' Such a perspective is granted only to men staring backward, Sir William. For those of us with the will to go forward, it is as if we walk blindfolded into a dark room. Not every false step or stumble can be judged after the moment has passed, nor should it be.

Words are not heavy. It does not take more than one of you to carry my reply.

It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight.

We must be grateful that the Senate appreciates gold. The senators think only about new horses and slaves, but they were never poor as much as I've been poor. I appreciate gold only because of what it brings to me and this is where it's placed me - on this stairs, with the largest city in the world behind me.

When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.

Life is not easy, but, at least, it can be simple.

Life is never a simple problem made of questions and one answer. There are always plenty answers.

For a moment, he almost wished Jochi alive so he could tell him how different things were, how his world had grown larger that the small inheritance they had fought over. The horizons were wide enough for them all, he realized now, but the wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

I've thought of a reason," Kit MacNeill said

Beverly?" she said. "Lady Evelyn." "Are you a confirmed misogynist or am I special?" His smile was sublime. "My appreciation of the fairer sex is universal, madame.

Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me the world I see outside it- ain't.

It's one thing to remember your roots, Sam. Helps us keep our balance. But don't let your roots become your excuse to be stuck.

Lorraine's voice was kind and patient. Personally, I'd have told the kid to shut up and get in the car. Guess that's why I don't have kids.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.