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Quotes About Perspective

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
~ Bill Watterson
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
~ Helen Keller
There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.
~ Brian Kenny
It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
~ Queen Victoria
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
~ Meryl Streep
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
~ Winston Churchill
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
~ Steve Case
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
~ Milan Kundera
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
~ Robert Menzies
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.
~ Alex Zanardi
We don't "have" a great day, we "make it" a great day!
~ Frosty Westering
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.
~ Paula Scher
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
~ Bobby Fischer
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
~ R. H. Tawney
Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.
~ Stephen Colbert
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
~ Martin Amis
If we don't take inventory every once in a while and give thanks to God for the great things He has done for us, we get totally out of perspective.
~ David Jeremiah
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~ Doris Lessing