2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

Thoughts are fluid, the negative ones can always flow out and positive ones can flow in.

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?" Came the inquiry."Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?""It is called Karakal""I don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high?""Over twenty-eight thousand feet.""Indeed? I didn't realize there would be anything on that scale outside the Himalayas. Has it been properly surveyed? Whose are the measurements?""Whose would you expect, my dear sir? Is there anything incompatible between monasticism and trigonometry?

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

What we don't often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we are - in the things we do - in the things we say.