Perspective Quotes

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.”

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenus. Dollars, not dimes.

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

If you could see yourself the way others see you, you would be amazed.

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.