Quotes About Perspective

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

Success is somebody else's failure.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.

A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need to take a step back to get a clearer view.

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.