Perspective Quotes

• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

  

  Diogenes
  • People
  • Disposition
  • Antisthenes

• I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Perspective
  • Canvas

• I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Internet
  • Explore

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.

  

  Jamie S. Miller
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Perspective

• That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Together
  • Perspective

• My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Father
  • Career
  • Choices

• I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Different
  • Perspective

• Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Death
  • End
  • Communication

• From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Way
  • Famous
  • Head

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Perspective
  • Steps
  • Loses

• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Live
  • Perspective

• I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.

  

  Ellen Datlow
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Hate

• The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Today
  • Know
  • Government

• Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Perspective

• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Meetings

• Let’s not lose our perspective here. The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Service
  • Perspective

• In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Beginning
  • Unique
  • Songs

• I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Perspective
  • Grass
  • Soil

• I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

  

  Big Sean
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I had when I first got up here was, 'We really do live on a planet, and we are in a solar system, and we are flying through space right now.' I mean, this is something that you know, obviously, but to see the planet - it's amazing.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Up
  • Live
  • Space

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