Quotes About Perspective

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

CHOOSE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW YOU VIEW YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

It's about attitude.

VISION IS THE LIGHT THAT KEEPS YOU HEADED DOWN THE RIGHT PATH WHEN ALL THE WORLD AROUND YOU IS DARK.

Como dijo Steve Jobs: "La creatividad es simplemente conectar cosas. Cuando uno le pregunta a la gente creativa cómo hicieron algo, se sienten un poco culpables porque en realidad ellos no lo hicieron; ellos solo vieron algo, y les pareció obvio después de un rato".

stress this enough: if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away.

The happiest people in life don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just try to make the best of everything. They're like the person in a remote village going to a well every day to get water who says, "Every time I come to this well, I come away with my bucket full!" instead of, "I can't believe I have to keep coming back to this well to fill up my bucket!

English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself." What kind of voices do you hear? When you face new experiences, does a voice in your head say you're going to fail? If you're hearing negative messages, you need to learn to give yourself positive mental pep talks.

There's only one thing more contagious than a good attitude—and that's a bad attitude.

Truth does not become more or less true, whether those who know it are many or few.

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

She fell into the chair he had left vacant. "Don't sit in your father's chair, Amy," her mother said, not realizing that Amy's legs were worn out from riding a bicycle, while her father had done nothing but sit down all day.

And he recognized that he was separated only by a pane of glass from a life that was as strange to him as life on the moon.

since these are hours and days out of one's life, can there be any other course but to look back into them, even though at times they seem like waste?

What I did not understand, as I walked down Fifth Avenue that afternoon, was how a world that had seemed so dark could, in a few minutes, become so sweet.

Charlie continued to complain to most of the tenants when they wished him a merry Christmas, changing his story from the lonely bachelor to the poor father, and back again

Creativity is not a talent; it's a way of operating.

People are changed not by exhortations to do things but by experiences... they may be changed by experience, in a way that could never be achieved with mere good advice.

Once you've got -- actually got -- an idea that is whirring around so fast that no other light or contrary evidence can come in, I think it's very dangerous.

Young children have so little life experience that they inevitably assume that what happens around and to them is the norm.

Frames of Mind

The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they're right

It may be a good world,' he remarked sententiously, and 'and it may be a bad world, but it's the world; and us has got to handle 'un with eyes in our heads for landslides.

I don't understand half of what I read,' Christie began, speaking with extreme precision. 'All I know is that every one of those old books has its own atmosphere for me.