Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hurt

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

John Fahey

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

Joan Lunden

It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.

Garry Trudeau

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

Lucian

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.

Lori Foster

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

M. John Harrison

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

Joe Walsh

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

John C. Reilly

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own...

John C. Maxwell

Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.

James Patterson

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

James McAvoy

I wanted to join the navy to get some perspective on the world and explore.

Sean Hannity

All right, Shep, I want to get some perspective here ...

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

There isn't anything yet that I would necessarily do different, but from my perspective that comes from the planning and thought we put into the home.

It really taps into hopelessness, helplessness and self-worth but from a company's perspective, it can be really costly.

At first we were irritated. But then you have to realize you have to keep things in perspective.

Crystal Bowersox

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

Calvin Klein

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

Tunde Adebimpe

I'm all for awkward, frank, sometimes painful conversations about things that give everyone a better perspective on who they are in the here and now, and how they want to proceed from there.

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Denis Waitley

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Charles Simic

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Deepak Chopra

Begin to see yourself in all other beings.

Barbara Tuchman

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

David Rosen

These differences are not significant from a forecasting perspective.

Barbara Kingsolver

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

Boyd Rice

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.