Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

In every moment, in everything that happens, you can look on the bright side of something… There are two ways of seeing almost everything.

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Perspective is a gift nowadays.

If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth…

In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance – because there’s two sides to every question. That doesn’t mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there’s always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Maybe certain aspects of what I was doing were reacting against what was happening or what people said, too. That’s something that happens when you’re starting out. After some time goes by and you get a little perspective, you realize that you don’t need to react. You can just carry on with what you’re doing. That took me a long time figure out; I’ve only gotten to that point in the last five or 10 years.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the ‘eyes of mankind’,first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.

Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? Look, here’s the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families.

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses upon us a dynamic picture of the world of entities, structures and processes involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.