Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

It's been very exciting, ... There's so much freedom. You get a different perspective of how things are.

Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Rollo May

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

Taylor Momsen

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

Sonia Sotomayor

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

William Saroyan

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

Vera Farmiga

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

Uma Thurman

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

Thomas S. Monson

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

Tupac Shakur

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance...

Saul Bellow

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

Ronnie Wood

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Roberto Assagioli

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

William Ralph Inge

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Wole Soyinka

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.

Zainab Salbi

From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Les Brown

Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly, never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith and fortify yourself from the inside out.

Terrence Howard

Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we call results are beginnings.

Shinzo Abe

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Kurt Schwitters

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Marc Rotenberg

There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.

Tibor Kalman

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

Tony Robbins

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.