Quotes About Perspective

In dealing with objections, as with differences of opinion, nothing is gained by confrontation, though much is to be gained by appreciation of the other's viewpoint. Most objections you hear are best handled by first demonstrating your understanding of the other's viewpoint. Always start your response with 'I understand' or 'I can appreciate your position' or 'I see your point' or 'of course' followed by 'However' or 'Also consider' or a similar line that puts you back into consideration.

Hindsight really is a fucking wonderful thing.

old Irish adage, people only know what you tell them.

Like the old adage, you never knew what you had till it was gone.

Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?

Be serene. It is not what happens to you, it is how you deal with it.

One thing she knew was that no matter what happened to you, no matter how bad life got, happiness – true happiness – was a state of mind.

move on but, as Aunt Dolly had pointed out to him on many occasions

you couldn't fight age, not really. If you had ten face-lifts and your whole body remodelled, you might look younger but you would still be fifty or sixty or whatever. Looking younger did not make you younger. Time passed, and the older you got the quicker it seemed to go.

The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC

Live your life how you want. Before you know it you'll be old. Old as me. And when you get to my age you get a different perspective on life. Suddenly, every day seems just that little bit shorter. You feel the ache coming in your bones. You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over. I read once that when people get old and go senile, they go back to a time in their life when they were useful.

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear.

find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. The

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

There is no hell, John Temsland. Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.

She learned that there is a cruelty in the world. She did not yet understand that those who hurt others do so because they believe that people desire to hurt them. She did not know yet that such people suffer more than the ones they hurt, for they must live in their own skin, in a world of their own making, a world full of enemies.

Reality is just this game people play together, something their brain decides on, and the minute their brain gets iffy about reality, they realize everything they know about the world is just their own made-up version of it, and that would mean everyone is walking around in their own made-up world, all alone, and reality is just something we invent together to make us feel not so alone. It scares people when some of us check out of the game.

When a lie is not for yourself it's easier to say it.

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.

The truth is, most people love change until it affects them.

When your goal is to describe a vision for the future, information is not enough. People are up to their necks in information. What they need is a way to imagine life after the change, and compare it with life today. That's why it's called a vision and not a plan.

If we wipe away some of the misconceptions about brand, we can make more room for its truths. Ready?