Perspective Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.”
– Denis Waitley

“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.”
– Denis Waitley

“Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.”
– Dennis Prager

“You know, it shouldn’t just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories – just to express human experience from a woman’s perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I’m all about representation.”
– Diablo Cody

“From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we’re engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.”
– Dick Cheney

“That is who Barack Obama is – a person of admirable character – and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective – even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it’s given them a different perspective.”
– Elizabeth McGovern

“I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It’s interesting to see the male perspective.”
– Ellie Goulding

“I probably grow half my food. It’s a good way to keep perspective.”
– Emilio Estevez

“It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.”
– Felicity Jones

“The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.”
– Frank Shorter

“It’s amazing how, over time, a person’s perspective can be altered.”
– Fred Durst

“The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Let’s not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let’s give importance to the real democracy that’s constructed on a day-to-day basis. That’s my hopeful perspective on it.”
– Gael Garcia Bernal

“I’m a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I’m not so good at perspective.”
– Garry Trudeau

“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”
– Gregory Peck

“Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.”
– Guy Pearce

“I’m hard on myself, so I’m working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow

“When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you’re a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.”
– Henning Mankell

“As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences – this life and beyond – we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.”
– Henry Reed

“Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.”
– Herman Kahn

“Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.”
– Holly Madison

“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.”
– Hugh Jackman

“I have done many movies that people hadn’t seen. ‘The Fountain,’ I spent a year on that. ‘The Prestige’ with Chris Nolan, and ‘Australia.’ From my perspective it’s very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don’t. ‘Wolverine,’ ‘X Men,’ I know that in some level people know me just for that and it’s fine for me.”
– Hugh Jackman

“I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.”
– Ice Cube

“So from an actor’s perspective, you really have no idea how you’re acting.”
– Ice T

“Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.”
– Jack Kemp

“As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.”
– Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Doesn’t every generation feel like the one that’s coming up behind them doesn’t know how to grow up? I’m not sure if we’re progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.”
– Jason Reitman

“I’ve always had an underdog perspective.”
– Jason Reitman

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