Quotes About Perspective

The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.

Rumalus on põlata austajad ära siis, kui neid on palju ja nad on noored, ning hakata neile järele jooksma kolmekümne aasta pärast, kui neid on vähe ja nad on kiilaspäised.

The queen has kept changing. The truth is I've never met the queen...well, never exactly her, do you understand?

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget... Here we are on this earth, with only a few decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

La parte difficile, in una discussione, non è difendere la propria opinione, quanto conoscerla.

Belki de insanlar? en çok bölen ?ey, kimilerinin her ?eyden önce geçmi?te, kimilerinin de yaln?z içinde bulunduklar? dakikada ya?amalar?d?r.

Meil? - tai liga, kurios simptomai kiekvien? syk? pasireiškia vis kitaip.

Cómo no lo había conocido antes?, le pregunté, y él contestó con la humildad del que dice la verdad: porque eras una burguesita de lo más chinche

The filmmaker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.

A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad. Not even close.

Spero di non arrivare mai al punto di pensare che alcune migliaia di dollari, in fondo, non sono poi molti soldi.

Ho la sensazione di essere stato messo a parte di un piccolo, ignobile segreto – vincere non cambia niente. Adesso che ho vinto uno slam, so qualcosa che a pochissimi al mondo è concesso sapere. Una vittoria non è così piacevole quant'è dolorosa una sconfitta. E ciò che provi dopo aver vinto non dura altrettanto a lungo. Nemmeno lontanamente.

Given all that lies beyond my control, I obsess about the few things I can control

I've been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. Now that I've won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad. Not even close.

He doesn't know the value of letting the other guy lose.

Now that I've won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad. Not even close.

For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

it's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can't drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

Different people carry different toolboxes.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

The color of truth is grey.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.