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Quotes About Perspective

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
~ Ray Bradbury
A great man is always willing to be little.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
~ William Congreve
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
~ Edward de Bono
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
~ Thaddeus Golas
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.
~ Robert Breault
I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.
~ Curly Howard
One positive thought can change your whole day.
~ Russell Simmons
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
~ Jimmy Carr
You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.
~ Mike Richter
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
~ Leif Garrett
Choose to live in a place where your eyes are always open to the positive possibilities.
~ Ralph Marston
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
~ William Dean Howells
Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.
~ Robert Holden
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.
~ Greg Jackson
Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.
~ Bryant H. McGill
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
~ Izaak Walton
I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!
~ Jenny Agutter
I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.
~ Neil Armstrong
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
~ Gladys Taber
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
~ Erma Bombeck