Quotes About Perspective

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Only you have the power to change your thoughts. Alter your thoughts and you alter your world.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Or, I don't know, how about this: the important thing isn't what's gone or lost, it's seeing and knowing what's still there and how it can grow.

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

if you know whether a man is a decided monist or a decided pluralist, you perhaps know more about the rest of his opinions than if you give him any other name ending in IST. To believe in the one or in the many, that is the classification with the maximum number of consequences.

How can you eat anything with eyes?

I am blessed. I am blessed because I am going to go long before any of them do. I am not going to have to grieve for them, because they are going to have to grieve for me.

You look at me like I have something to be sad about. My existence makes you grateful you are not me.

There's a reason there aren't any fifty-five-year-old terrorists, or at least there weren't until they all started watching Fox News. Destroying things is for the young.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Youve got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.