Quotes About Perspective

lo amargo llega antes que lo dulce;

As the saying of the wise says, 'All this world promotes is vanity.' (But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity. – Eccles. 11:8)

Some said, John, print it, others said, Not so. Some said, It might do good, others said, No.

By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.

Speak not so sourly,' answered Robin. 'Did you eat thorns and vinegar for breakfast today?

Well you, young man, need to learn about what is much more important than cool. And that is: what is beautiful.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds,"Yes, but I have something he will never have — enough.

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had!

You don't really understand people until you hear their life story. If you know their stories, you grasp their history, their hurts, their hopes and aspirations. You put yourself in their shoes. And just by virtue of listening and remembering what's important to them, you communicate that you care and desire to add value.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

It is true: most people are more satisfied with old problems than committed to finding new solutions.

One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.

Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.

The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.

I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

When you accomplish something that you once believed was impossible, it makes you a new person. It changes the way you see yourself and the world.

You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from discovering what you desire.

Asking and hearing people's opinions has a greater effect on them than telling them, 'Good job.' " —Sam Walton