Quotes about Perspective
Story is how we figure things out, bring order and meaning to the events around us. The story we hold at any given time shapes our perceptions, hopes, and expectations; it gives us a place to stand.
— John Eldredge
there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.
— John F. Kennedy
Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.
— John Lennon
I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love? I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer.
— John Lennon
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
— John Lennon
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
— John Milton
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
— Stephen Covey
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
— George H. W. Bush
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
— Mary Baker Eddy
It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.
— Chris Oyakhilome