Quotes About Perspective

Our response to an offense determines our future.

You are constantly changing & evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.