Quotes About Perspective

A lot of people make money off of fear and negativity and any way they can feed it to you is to their benefit in a lot of ways. You can't avoid it completely; you have to be open enough that shit doesn't stick on you, it goes through, because you are gonna be hit and bombarded all the time with negativity... You just let things go on through without trying to stop them or block them.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Despite everything, they tend to view economic poverty as a barrier and a challenge, not a state of being.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

There is a little good in all evil.

What good is a white man if you can't have a little fun with him? "At

Among the whites some think they can see and choose for others.

General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, "Knowing you're wrong." Lieutenant

one teenage girl who, during a lucid dream, "entered the body" of a boy whose attention she had been soliciting in vain. Once inside her love object's "body," she began to see things from his point of view. "I understood why he had been so reserved with me," she reported, "and I realized that he would never return my feelings." As a result, the girl was able to end a fruitless and disheartening infatuation.

Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

As Albert Einstein put it, "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

the use of time: the experiential equivalent of money.

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.