Quotes about Perspective

I've gone out alone and bellowed in rage at God at the top of my lungs. But the fact that I bellow at him I suppose proves that I think he's there, doesn't it? Go ahead and be mad at God if you feel like it, Vicky. [...] But remember when you're yelling at God, what you're doing is saying, Do it MY way, God, not YOUR way, but MY way

cow. It finished opera for me for years.

We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.

The early Christians had the great advantage of believing that the world would soon come to an end. That was a sort of miracle in their favour because it prevented them occupying their minds with irrelevant matters.

Its good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what youve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; youll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, youll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did, in fact, they admired it.

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

Success is not what I've done compared with what others have done. Success is what I've done compared with what God has called me to do.

Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.