Quotes About Perspective

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.