Best Perspective Quotes

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.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

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

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

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.’

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.

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

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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

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.

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

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.

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…

Perspective is a gift nowadays.

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.

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.

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge’s chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, He is so big. We can never kill him. David looked at the same giant and thought, He is so big. I can’t miss.

I would have to say that my mother’s entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father’s, are very evident in my own outlook.