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Quotes About Perspective

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
~ Ramona Koval
The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
~ Franz Grillparzer
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
~ Andy Hargreaves
You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.
~ Akeem Ayers
Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
~ Benjamin Carson
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
~ Bill Ayers
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
~ Frank Herbert
If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.
~ Fred D'Aguiar
Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
~ Henry Adams
Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.
~ Jennifer Beals
Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
~ Jack Kerouac, Satori In Paris
Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository
~ they are a crowd.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
~ Joyce Meyer
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
~ William James
I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.
~ J. Cole
Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
~ Shams Tabrizi
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.
~ Ron White
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
~ Ron White
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.
~ Zig Ziglar
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
~ Gene Wilder
Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein
Width of life is more important than length of life.
~ Avicenna
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
~ Eckhart Tolle