Quotes about Perspective

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

Lou Kitchenmaster, a retired teacher from Michigan, wrote an editorial in 2012 that puts the progressive position in perfect perspective: None of us would expect our major auto makers to build a high-quality product given damaged or defective materials; however, too many unfairly expect our public schools to accomplish such, regardless of the inherent condition of the "product" they receive. So he considers poor kids to be "damaged or defective materials.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.