Perspective Quotes

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

~ David Halberstam

Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Change your awareness and your perspective changes.

~ Andrea Goeglein

We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.

~ John Kasich

The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.

~ Ron Lizzi

He was more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

~ David Halberstam

Peace produces a proper perspective.

~ Todd Stocker

As of this writing, I am twenty-five years old. I have been alive for 307 months. Nine of those months were pretty terrible. But 298 of those months have been very good. I have been happy. I have been very blessed. Who knows how many more months I have to live? But even if I died tomorrow, nine out of 307 seems like pretty good odds.

~ Elizabeth Smart

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

~ R.c. Sproul

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

~ William Kent Krueger

She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was how Paunceforte would have seen it. But then she did not see it like that. She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel; the light of a butterfly’s wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral.

~ Virginia Woolf

As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Success is never a place but a perspective.

~ Debasish Mridha

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

~ George Eliot

All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.

~ Ka Chinery

Life makes fun of us and we should help it.

~ David Brandon

Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political persuasion because it is inclined to shun alarmism.

~ William Krystol

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.

~ Gina Greenlee

With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.

~ Peter Heather

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

~ Trevor Roper

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet.

~ Marilynne Robinson

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

~ Mark Batterson

Are you really a doctor?” I asked.“Some people say that.”“Why?”“Because I went to medical school.”“Did you not finish?” I asked hesitantly.“I finished.”“So…?”“So sometimes I work as a doctor.”“So doesn’t that make you a doctor?”“I guess, but I also worked as a baker, construction worker, and a bunch of other things. Either way I just prefer being known as Jack. I mean Dr. Baker Jack Hammer Jack, would be entertaining, but I think also a little weird.

~ Michael Brent Jones

Truth is a kaleidoscope - it alters with perspective

~ Sweety Shinde

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

~ Alexandre Dumas

All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn’t be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn’t make me feel I’d done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I’m descended from an ape, I feel I’ve done remarkably well.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.

~ Brian A. Jackson

Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.

~ John Maerz

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it?

~ V.s. Naipaul

Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?

~ Donald L. Hicks

Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God’s name is memorised by me. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, Dr.Mukherjee.

~ Sambhav Ratnakar

Looking at your day from a “golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.

~ Elizabeth George

I say this to myself alone: when you feel crushed, those around you look broken. When you glow, darkness turns to black light. If you hurt, even the comforts you are offered wound you. As you prosper, your failures prove to be just the right thing, perfect.

~ Bahauddin

This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page. What do they gain? They gain this, simply nothing. Poets must assemble and present their work accordingly to how they see fit and should be careful of advice from other writers and editors. Sometimes there can be too much going on in the words that are meant to be given with the best of intentions.

~ Abigail George

It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

~ Brian Spellman

No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities from the top of a mountain or from a plane, we feel it’s hopeless, but if we go down, there is a nice road running about fifty meters, we feel this is a nice road, and if the weather is fine and shining, we feel we can go on… Since the people in the community are cleaning up the river in my neighborhood, I join them when I have the time. A human can often be satisfied with the particulars. That’s what I like best these days.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.

~ M.l. Stedman

So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.

~ Seneca