Quotes about Perspective

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

What is true is what is true for you. No one has any right to force data on you and command you to believe it or else. If it is not true for you, it isn't true. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest. There is nothing unhappier than one who tries to live in a chaos of lies.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

You may not have before you the most creative and satisfying day to live, but you know that live it you must. You can make the day a chore; dull, nerve-wracking, frustrating, a waste of time. Or the same day can be taken on with energy, enthusiasm and a determination to make it one of the best days of your life, for yourself and those about you.

Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things exactly the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.