2,376 Quotes About Perspective

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

Never let your perspective change the truth. The truth should always change your perspective.

You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

People treat the present moment as if it is just a stopping point on the way to some great goal that will happen in the future, and then they are surprised that the long day closes; they look back on their life and see that the things they let go by so unregarded, the small pleasures they dismissed so easily were in fact the true significance of their lives- all the time these things were the great and wonderful successes and purpose of their existence.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

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.