Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Garfield

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

Betty Smith

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

Ai Weiwei

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.

Jared Dudley

It's real sad and it just puts things in perspective for life.

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

I'm sure the other teams are thinking they made the difference, but from my perspective we made things too easy.

They'll have to have a whole different perspective for the full-time job.

The transition from our perspective is going smoothly overall.

Donald Miller

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

Jack Nicholson

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

Guy Pearce

Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?

Margaret J. Wheatley

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

Eric Bogosian

From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.

James Cook

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

Hedi Slimane

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

Plato

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Mary E. Pearson

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

Lance Armstrong

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

Lisa Murkowski

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

Liev Schreiber

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Krakauer

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Terry Pratchett

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Eric Kandel

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Eric Kripke

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Pharrell Williams

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Mariska Hargitay

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

Max Lucado

From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.