Quotes About Perspective

I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Your hater is your future fan in a way. Cause when it's different they don't really take to it at first, but after you look back on it you get a chance to reflect on it.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

Most of us are worrying about the future so much that we can't enjoy the present.

The future just isn't what it used to be

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.