Quotation Explorer - 'Perspective'

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. - Khaled Hosseini
With time comes perspective. - Joshua Wisenbaker
Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom. - A.D. Sams
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. - David Cronenberg
Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective. - Thea Kristine May
Art is not about achievement, but rather a new perspective to look from. - Armin Houman
Most difficult problems become very easy when we learn how to put things into perspective. - Debasish Mridha
Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. - Stella Payton
Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
What you feel, and what is real all just a matter of perspective. - Chris Burkmenn
Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other's perspective that they always think you are. - Dancolin Flamiano
When our consciousness is open to the Love and Light of the SOUL, our lives gain a new perspective. The LIGHT illuminates all that may be still obscure and doubtful in our minds. The presence of LOVE dissolves fear and protects us, and at the same time it radiates to everyone around us! - Angie karan
Help our response, Lord, not to be, "WHAT are You doing?!" Instead, give us the perspective to ask, "Lord, what would You teach? - Brian Eshleman
Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective. - Katja Michael
Every great dream begins with a perspective; change the world with the power and strength within you - Kamal Khanzada
If you seek happiness through someone else's perspective, you might as well get comfortable in sorrow. - Unarine Ramaru
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. - Dave Kellett
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient. - Noam Chomsky
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'. - Gary Larson
Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes. - Matthew Donnelly
It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud. - Todd Stocker
True compassion comes by living in the shoes of another, providing a perspective closer to that of God. - Jason Micheal Ratliff
Coaching is the universal to connect with people, helping them to develop a new perspective, while expanding their inner beliefs and boundaries, equipping them to become the best version of themselves. - Farshad Asl
When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective. - Ariana Carruth
Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged. - Winston S. Churchill
Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition. - Ian McNulty
Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can't change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons or nourishes you. - Steve Maraboli
Life only remains complex with the individual perspective. Individual perspective cannot think beyond itself while life has to consider the perspective of each and every individual. - Roshan Sharma
There are three realities of life. The reality that you hold, as your individual’s perspective, the actual reality, and the ultimate truth, out of which your perspective and the actual reality take place. - Roshan Sharma
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. - Daisaku Ikeda
Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me. - Heather Christle
When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.In silence it finds its peace. - Raphael Zernoff
You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy. - John Green
From my perspective I believe that most Christians do not dread judgment day because it is the end, but because they will no longer be able to embrace the façade of a sinless mirrored reflection. - Carl Henegan
God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word. - Elizabeth George
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. - Shannon L. Alder
Everyone suffers personal setbacks. If you're experiencing difficulty in your career or personal life, keep it in perspective - by persevering through your difficulties, you're building a stronger personality in you. Never give up!. - Auliq Ice
Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you. - Chris Hadfield
In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective. - Mike Dooley
The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Change your attitude and you change your life. You cannot control what happens to you in your life, but you can always control how you respond to it. The way you choose to respond is a reflection of your attitude. By changing your attitude, you also change your perspective and change your life. - Roy Bennett
People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace. - Mark Ryan
Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person. - Nin
No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective. - Rosemarie Osmun
Success is never a place but a perspective. - Debasish Mridha
It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness. - Dan Stevens
We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about who we are in Christ and that God is in control. - Michael Barbarulo
Change your awareness and your perspective changes. - Andrea Goeglein
What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found? - Jodi Picoult
If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence. - Shannon L. Alder
Embrace pain. Channel it properly to grow stronger and more resilient. Turn negatives into positives. Change your perspective. Love yourself - Independent Zen
As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives. - lauren klarfeld
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice. - Vironika Tugaleva
When you feel life is getting too cruel and insensitive…Look for a newspaper or poor streets…You will automatically gain perspective and start loving your Life.~Kritika Sharma - Kritika Sharma
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. - Harvey MacKay
Sometimes the solution of a problem is just the perspective of thinking. - raja shakeel mushtaque
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. - Gregory Peck
Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective. - Annie Murphy Paul
There's something amazing about humor and laughter. It broadens your perspective. - Hrishikesh Agnihotri
Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective - Farley Maglaya
The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence. - Julian Assange
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Always listen to your soul and feel the purity of that moment - no matter how sad or joyful - because it will speak to you further... a healing an understanding, a perspective or more will come out of it. Only because you listened. - Angie karan
From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are. - The Prophet of Life
Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions. - Abhijit Naskar
The reality of life does not change who you are, it only changes your perspective. - Morgan Chabane
Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it. - T. A. Sorensen
Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock! - Deeba Salim Irfan
Looking at your day from a golden day perspective helps you prioritize. - Elizabeth George
This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle. - Kurt Schwitters
Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective. - Roy T. Bennett
Travel is an evolving experience. It doesn't take place in photographs or your past... Instead it's tucked up there in your memory and when you need a bit of it, or a new perspective on something hidden within it, it will emerge into your conscious mind - Dan Kieran
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran. - Alan Perlis
I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective. - Robin Sacredfire
Being socialized female and spending my life "othered" by this world gives me a unique perspective. In the past, this has felt like shit. In the present, it feels pretty good. In the future I hope somebody loves me enough to watch me age ungracefully. - Harvey Katz
There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective? - Jay Woodman
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom. - Christopher Earle
A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective. - Shannon L. Alder
It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective - Death Cab for Cutie
Regardless of the religious tradition, spiritual path, or personal perspective we choose to embrace, the potential exists for it to encourage and uplift every aspect of our being and to affect the types of goals we may choose to set for ourselves. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That’s the real sparkle in Christmas. - Toni Sorenson
Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently? - Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective. - Leila Summers
The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day. - Elizabeth George
How to build a fire: stay true to your perspective! Then burn. - Ralph L Harmon
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. - John Constable
The choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. - Andrea Goeglein
Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective. - Debasish Mridha
Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory. - James Thornton
Whether it is your body, your mind, or the world the idea of keeping a distance from it is to have a better perspective of everything. - Sadghuru
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. - Bruce H. Lipton
People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations. - Shannon L. Alder
Live happy and enjoy your journey. Life is too short to not enjoy the ride ! Perspective really matters. Worry never solves any problems. Have belly laughs and chuckles instead - Angie karan
Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective. - Angela Howell
Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision - Bob Selden
I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity. - Alisa Hope Wagner
As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box. - Mary Sage Nguyen
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. - Mary Pipher
Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective. - Alexander William Gaskarth
When you change your perspective towards this world, you can find happiness everywhere. - Saga Valsalan
Leadership is about relationships - whether it’s a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life. - Steve Knox
The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible. - James M. Fallows
It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parliament, an officer, a cockroach. - Michael Hofmann
Mankind is immortalin the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of naturebut by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends indeath; the fall in comedy ends in bed, where, by natures's arithmetic,one and one make a brand new one. - Rose A. Zimbardo
Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel. - Melody Robinette
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye. - Chuck Sigars
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. - Miguel Syjuco
Change your perspective. Enjoy every failure as a success and every win as a loss. - Debasish Mridha
The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life. - Shannon L. Alder
Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life. - Linda Rawson
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand. - George Smoot
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. - Will Durant
Never let your perspective change the truth. The truth should always change your perspective. - Stephen D. Matthews
There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective. - Taylor Schake
Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.Cordelia: I stand corrected.Oz: Just keeping things in perspective. - Mutant Enemy/ Joss Whedon
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. - Eugène Ionesco
I will never tell another person, I don’t understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability. - C. JoyBell C.
Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action. - Andrea Goeglein
The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective. - Tim Fargo
Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS. - JT Sanz
Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world. - Namsoon Kang
Authentic happiness lies in your state of perspective and not all about the state of your income. Real happiness runs deep from within and does not just walk on shallow waters."- Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo
Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity. - Chris Vonada
No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control. - Irene Dunlap
Soulful intent...A perspective that reminds us that our understanding is not the only way" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret - hlbalcomb
Photography is all about the perspective! - Pradeepa Pandiyan
Perspective is the key to everything. - A.D. Posey
To change your perspective, you have to change your perspective. - Kelley Hazen
Only when we pay attention and notice small moments, do we make the connections that lead to a change in our perspective. - Andrea Goeglein
The perspective is more important than the perception - Amit Abraham
The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it. - Matthew Donnelly
I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it? - Ivana Hruba
It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die - Thomas Page McBee
World is getting stranger and stranger... I think there is interesting perspective in the series "Falling Water". - Deyth Banger
I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course. - David Skinner
The best way to understand life is to understand one’s own perspective towards life and rise above it. You have the higher intelligence in you, that allows you to perceive life, beyond an individuals perspective. - Roshan Sharma
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