Quotes About Perspective

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

History is written by the winners.

The early church didn't say, 'Look what the world is coming to!' They said, 'Look what has come into the world'!

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

The historian amputates reality.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.