Quotes About Perspective

P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor.

Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. The man who claims a seat in a faster vehicle insists that his time is worth more than that of the passenger in a slower one. Beyond a certain velocity, passengers become consumers of other people's time, and accelerating vehicles become the means for effecting a net transfer of life-time.

You all have a universally fatal condition. It's called pre-death.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

There are no big stories left, just paths through the clutter and the inevitable soft landing.

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

Nikada više ne planiram. Ja samo živim ovaj život. Ponekad kako želim, ponekad kako moram. Sitnice mi boje život. Sitnice su sre?a. Zato ja volim male stvari. I velike torbe. Svuda ih sa sobom nosim, jer sebi dugujem još poneku šetnju izme?u o?ekivanog i neplaniranog.

Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.

the broadening of cultural perspectives can in turn broaden the range not only of what can be sensed but what can be perceived.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

being contradictory is more important than being right.

The purpose of meditation is not so much changing what we see as changing the way we see it.

I have never met leadership without a sense of humor; this ability to stand outside oneself and one's circumstances, to see things in perspective and laugh. It is a great safety value! You will never lead others far without the joy of the Lord and its concomitant, a sense of humor.3

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

Even the most dreaded of poisonous snakes is a kindly disposed fellow at heart.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.