Perspective quotes
Welcome to our collection of quotes on Perspective. Perspective is a powerful lens through which we view the world and interpret our experiences. It shapes our thoughts, attitudes, and actions, influencing how we perceive both the challenges and the beauty that life presents.
These quotes explore the idea that perspective is not just about what we see, but how we see it. They remind us that our outlook can greatly impact our happiness, success, and relationships. Whether it's gaining a fresh viewpoint on a difficult situation or appreciating the small joys of everyday life, these quotes inspire us to examine our own perspectives and broaden our understanding of the world around us.
Through the words of philosophers, writers, and thinkers from all walks of life, this collection offers insights into the power of perspective to shape our reality. So take a moment to reflect, find inspiration, and perhaps discover a new way of looking at the world with these diverse and thought-provoking quotes on Perspective.
Explore this compilation and let the wisdom of these words encourage you to embrace a new way of seeing, understanding, and appreciating the world we inhabit. May these quotes challenge and inspire you to shift your perspective and unlock new possibilities in your own life.
Jay Rockefeller
— United States SenatorOne of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistThat was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIf Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhat you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorI loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
James Fitzjames Stephen
— Eminent Lawyer, Judge & Thoughtful WriterA liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.
Peter Temple
— Acclaimed Australian Crime Fiction AuthorAs far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerThe things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestWe have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
Darren McCarty
— Champion Hockey Player & Inspirational StoryI'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerWhen you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorI don't see the world in sexual divisions.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food Writer...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
Chadwick Boseman
— American actorThe best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostBut magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.
Ed McBain
— American author and screenwriterThe world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerWhenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanThou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.
Craig Stone
— English footballerOur problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorLife is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
Glennon Melton
— American author and activistDon't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistHere's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.
Jorge Luis Borges
— Writeri walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsI see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerI'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerFailure is an attitude, not an outcome.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostI'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like to have control over what the characters do. I think as an actor, you get a little too caught up in the moment-to-moment, beat-to-beat stuff to have perspective.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.
Craig Stone
— English footballerThey say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.
Glennon Melton
— American author and activistA good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistMiss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerThem as counts counts moren them as dont count
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerOptimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI don't really think in absolutes.
Craig Stone
— English footballerSometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistThat's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorReading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsI have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerMost business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorThe film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThere is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThere is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsDon't write about Man; write about a man.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerA student of life considers the world a classroom.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNot what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterBlindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWhen my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterBest thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsNot even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterFame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.