Perspective Quotes

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

~ Philip Zaleski

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

~ Philip Zaleski

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

~ Philip Zaleski

John F. Kennedy is, in reality, a deeply serious man, reflective in his mental habits, historically minded, and given to seeing men and nations and events in the sobering context that history provides.As a human being, he is often humorous, easily bored by total routine but open to all fresh experiences, careless of the superficialities of life, warmly loyal to his friends, and oddly detached about himself. His most curious trait, in fact, is his way of discussing his most vital affairs with the dry humor and cool analytical remoteness that most people reserve for the affairs of others. – Joseph Alsop

~ David Pietrusza

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

~ Alister E. Mcgrath

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

~ Erik Larson

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

~ Frank Herbert

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

~ Frank Herbert

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

~ Jonathan Haidt

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

~ George F. Will

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

~ John Howard Griffin

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

~ H.w. Brands

There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.

~ James Carl Nelson

Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.

~ Joe Pitkin

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

~ Madam Secretary

I do have to prioritize my end-of-the-world documents.

~ Madam Secretary

The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.

~ Rebecca Harding Davis

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

~ Patrick Hennessey

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

~ Rachel Dicarlo Currie

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

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

~ Patrick Hennessey

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

~ Kevin Deyoung

Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

~ Gregory Maguire

I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so much less. But those specs could ravage Mars. They could destroy a moon. Those specks rule the ink.

~ Pierce Brown

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

~ George F. Will

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

~ Paul C. Nagel

He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.

~ Colleen Chen

​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

~ Amanda Palmer

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

~ Stephen L. Carter

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

~ Neal Stephenson

We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Think personally, act communally.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now.

~ Girl Meets World