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Quotes About Perspective

when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.
~ Mohlalefi j motsima
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
~ Pablo Neruda
Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
~ Ann Patchett
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.
~ Li Ka-shing
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
~ Gautama Buddha
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
~ James D. Watson
People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
~ Magnus Carlsen
My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.
~ Lana Turner
In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Don't think of your goals - think FROM them. Tap into your genius.
~ Robert G. Allen
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
~ Pablo Picasso
The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement
~ Danny Silk
The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'
~ Jim Rohn
People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.
~ William H. Whyte
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
~ Boy George
Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.
~ Chris Weidman
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
~ Immanuel Kant
I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.
~ Apolo Ohno
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
~ Kit Williams
I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.
~ Werner Herzog
Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.
~ Ted Alexandro
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
~ James Hillman
I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.
~ Jim Carrey