Perspective Quotes
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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner. (Quote by - Frank Hague)
It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large. (Quote by - Wilton M. Blount)
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace. (Quote by - Dhammapada)
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. (Quote by - Robert Hewison)
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. (Quote by - Cardinal De Rets)
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. (Quote by - Johnny Miller)
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. (Quote by - A. R. Orage)
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. (Quote by - Robert Doisneau)
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus. (Quote by - Carol Lewis)
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem. (Quote by - Harvey Mindess)
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. (Quote by - Sir Edwin Arnold)
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. (Quote by - C. G. Jung)
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. (Quote by - Thomas à Kempis)
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. (Quote by - Richard Cobden)
If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. (Quote by - David Eccles)
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? (Quote by - Frederick (carl)
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People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. (Quote by - Gillian Anderson)
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. (Quote by - Will Cuppy)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. (Quote by - William Osler)
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. (Quote by - Leon Blum)
Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life. (Quote by - Angie Everhart)
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. (Quote by - Ralph Marston)
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth. (Quote by - Penelope Keith)
It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road. (Quote by - Darryl Somers)
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. (Quote by - Silius Italicus)
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. (Quote by - Antoine Arnauld)
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win. (Quote by - Amy Alcott)
Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended. (Quote by - Ted W. Engstrom)
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart. (Quote by - Susie Switzer)
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. (Quote by - E. R. Beadle)
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. (Quote by - Michael Konda)
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. (Quote by - Hume)
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. (Quote by - John Holt)
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. (Quote by - James Allen)
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. (Quote by - Ashleigh)
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. (Quote by - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. (Quote by - Odysseus Elytis)
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. (Quote by - Harlan Ellison)
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. (Quote by - Irving Batcheller)
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw. (Quote by - Robert Francis Kennedy)
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. (Quote by - Jennifer Capriati)
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. (Quote by - Alan Dean Foster)
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. (Quote by - George Duhamel)
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. (Quote by - Ken Keys)
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. (Quote by - Peter Nivio Zarlenga)
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. (Quote by - Frank Crane)
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend. (Quote by - Elizabeth Dunphy)
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works. (Quote by - David D. Burns)
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. (Quote by - Sallust)
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. (Quote by - Sherrill Brown)
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered. (Quote by - Haneef Fatmi)
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. (Quote by - Napoleon)
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. (Quote by - David Mamet)
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. (Quote by - Joseph De Maistre)
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking. (Quote by - Robert Cialdini)
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective. (Quote by - Arnold Beisser)
In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Quote by - Marie Von Ebner-eschenbac)
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy. (Quote by - Jack Kemp)
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. (Quote by - Françoise Mallet-joris)
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. (Quote by - Lewis Grizzard)
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)
I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid. (Quote by - Antonio Banderas)
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. (Quote by - Wayne Calloway)
The cause of freedom is the cause of God. (Quote by - Samuel Bowles)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. (Quote by - John Locke)
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. (Quote by - Walter Prager)
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. (Quote by - Lord Thomas Dewar)
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. (Quote by - Henry Bolingbroke)
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Quote by - James Halliwell)
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character. (Quote by - John King Fairbank)
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. (Quote by - Eduardo Galeano)
He who dares not (reason)
, is a slave. (Quote by - William Drummond)
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. (Quote by - Alexander Herzen)
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. (Quote by - Lawrence D. Bell)
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. (Quote by - John Barbour)
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. (Quote by - Ilya G. Ehrenburg)
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. (Quote by - Ojibwa Saying)
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lem)
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. (Quote by - Jules De Gautier)
It's good to shut up sometimes. (Quote by - Marcel Marceau)
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. (Quote by - Earl Camden)
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. (Quote by - Ray Knight)
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. (Quote by - Daisy Ashford)
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. (Quote by - Colin Wilson)
I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. (Quote by - W. N. Ewer)
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. (Quote by - Ernest Benn)
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. (Quote by - Al-nuri)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. (Quote by - Don Herold)
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. (Quote by - Edgar Z. Friedenberg)
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. (Quote by - Frank M. Garafola)
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. (Quote by - Paul Eldridge)
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. (Quote by - Jack Dixon)
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. (Quote by - Lord Barnett)
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. (Quote by - Richard Cecil)
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. (Quote by - William Cowper)
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. (Quote by - Bryan Appleyard)
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. (Quote by - Karl Wallenda)
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. (Quote by - John Sales)
Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away. (Quote by - Canon Lindsay Dewar)
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. (Quote by - Kemal Atatürk)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)
I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing. (Quote by - Michelle Mcgann)
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. (Quote by - Grace Kelly)
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. (Quote by - Abraham H. Maslow)
You can only be free if I am free. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. (Quote by - Confucius)
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. (Quote by - Peter M. Leschak)
To measure the man, measure his heart. (Quote by - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes)
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. (Quote by - M. Shawn Cole)
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. (Quote by - Charles-damian Boulogne)
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth. (Quote by - Vera Johnson)
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. (Quote by - Robin G. Collingwood)
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. (Quote by - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Quote by - George Bidault)
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. (Quote by - Michael Leboeuf)
No man is free who is not a master of himself. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. (Quote by - S. W. Duffield)
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. (Quote by - David Fasold)
It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed. (Quote by - Susie Switzer)
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. (Quote by - John Cassis)
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. (Quote by - J. B. Yeats)
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. (Quote by - Heywood Brown)
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. (Quote by - Henri De Lubac)
Pity is treason. (Quote by - Maximilien Robespierre)
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. (Quote by - Seneca)
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. (Quote by - Al Neuharth)
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. (Quote by - Peter A. Cohen)
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind. (Quote by - William C. Clegg)
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. (Quote by - Gandhi)
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. (Quote by - Jerry Seinfeld)
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
