Quotes About Perspective

there are two forms of observation: the first is on the detail and the second is on the big picture.

I always wanted to watch with my own eyes without having my judgement swayed by the filters of others.

If you are a boy who has just had his tenth birthday, your next one seems an eternity away. That's because the single year that stretches ahead amounts to 10 per cent of the time you have been on earth. It's a different sensation when you turn 50, because the distance to your 51st birthday amounts to just 2 per cent of the time you have been alive. As you get older and more experienced, you start to think about how you allocate time.

Si dirigiera un negocio, me encantaría conocer las ideas de sus trabajadores más jóvenes, pues son los que tienen un mayor contacto con la realidad y las perspectivas de futuro.

Tuve la suerte de que mi mujer y mis hijos no me hicieron sentir culpable por haber pasado tan poco tiempo con ellos y me permitieron ser egoísta.

Parents always forgive you. Like sometimes, you see parents on the news, and their kid just got busted for murdering a 7-11 clerk, and they're like, 'But my Bubba's a good boy. He'd never hurt a fly.' So I'm sure your parents would forgive you for whatever you did.

What they don´t tell you about Europe is how completely lame it is.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

I believed she'd gotten past ther hatred of me, turning to pity instead. But how could I make that into love?

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. from Beastly

It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.

We accept without question that we–human beings– are the center of the universe. Talk about hubris. But when a woman says, 'I love you', that won't go through our skulls.

But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and once she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.

There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

He didn't understand women so how could he possibly expect to understand their predecessors.

Her hope—and mine—was that a book about the children would make us all hear, that it would make us all stop and listen.

I'm going to share something I learned since I been here and that is us as people when we have difficulty on our journey of life we tend to focus on what we need at the moment that we forget what we already have…

A wise man once said, don't die, it's not as fun as it seems

In life's most difficult situations, it is our capacity to cope and personal resiliency that are put to the ultimate test. It's then that the freedom to choose our attitude takes center stage. To exercise this freedom effectively, however, we must be able to view any given situation from different vantage points. We must know we are and be flexible and courageous enough to make a shift when necessary, even if it means moving away from what is expected or considered "normal.

We often seem to create meaning by complaining. This can feel momentarily satisfying, but ultimately it undermines the integrity of our experience. It sucks the meaning out of our work and out of our relationship to our

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.