Quotes About Perspective

Perhaps "staying connected to history" challenges me because I am an American with an ingrained American worldview. We Americans tend to think mostly about the present or the future and very little about our connection to the past. I don't even know my great-grandfather's name. A friend in Lebanon can trace his lineage back to the Phoenicians in 300 B.c.!

though the Western world has dominated Christianity for much of Christian history, Christianity is now primarily a nonwhite, non-Western, nonwealthy religion.

What does it mean to live in what Fareed Zakaria calls a "post-American world"?' He summarizes the main idea of his book by that name in the first sentence: "This is a book not about the decline of America but rather about the rise of everyone else."2

A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.

Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

Monet is only an eye—but what an eye!

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Good and evil, however, are views taken from a certain given standpoint, and from this standpoint good and evil are features forming a contrast, but as such they are always actualities; neither the one nor the other

Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

salespeople who understand that the key to achieving success is establishing real value in the eyes of the customer.

Salespeople are often afraid to let their customers talk. They fear that if a customer takes the conversation in the wrong direction, they will lose control and ultimately lose the sale.

es imposible que los dos estén en lo cierto. Sí es posible, en cambio, que los dos estén en un error

We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!

A cat probably doesn't say to himself, 'Where did I go wrong? Why wasn't I able to get my idea across?' More likely, Leo's brain reacted very much like the human brain in such a situation, and he thought, 'That damned stupid human. He's too dumb to understand what I was trying to say.

Because when you stopped being a teenager, you started feeling less sure of yourself, and not everything seemed like it was life and death.

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

To human beings it won't look or feel like a war, it'll be more like . . . one of those modernist paintings you lot do, if it melted. Inside all your brains. Forever.

It's not like there's a vote on what's real," said Judith. "It don't matter what either of you believe, the world just gets on with it.

To believe in and reach for the beyond was Lizzie's thing, and it suited her and was beautiful for her, an opinion of Autumn's which she didn't think Lizzie had ever quite believed she held. To ask the beyond some serious questions was Autumn's thing.