Quotes About Perspective

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

How you think about your opportunities determines how you will act on them.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.