Quotes About Perspective

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others…. One feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two Souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products and services.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Let us honour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

All pity is self-pity.

Let us honor if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

If thou must chooseBetween the chances, choose the odd;Read the New Yorker; trust in God;And take short views.

About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position; how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a windowOr just walking dully along.

To us he is no more a personNow but a whole climate of opinion.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Always the following wind of history Of others' wisdom makes a buoyant air Till we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie Our fathers shouted once.

There are two sorts of people with whom you can never win an argument: those who base their belief on absolute faith, and those who know something by experience.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

Most American citizens do not think of themselves as living in an empire but instead in a great nation that mostly does good things. The occasional failing, like the toppling of a government in a violent coup or the murder of civilians in an air strike, is "not who we are.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.