Best perspective & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.”

Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.”

World Way Country Matter Home Motivational Perspective Walking Thirds Bubbles Third World Slums Third World Countries

Author:Katherine Schwarzenegger

“For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.”

Years Said Matter Done Might Motivational Today Lasts Past Night Perspective Yesterday Desks Last Night New Day Today Is A New Day Simply Said

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage”

Matter Whole Form Space Modern Building Perspective Elements Relation Posts Relate Planes Conventions Rooted Irrational Routes Angle Unlimited Cages Ambiguous Implied Coordinates Baroque

Author:Charles Jencks

“A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.”

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide

“To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.”

Knows Different Self Matter Memories Ability Awareness Perspective Intellectual Training Conscious Technique Analysis Self Conscious Synthesis Conscious Awareness

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.”

“After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.”

Feels Kind Matter Whole Sides Loss Space Perspective Blank Nothing Matters Blank Space Devastating Loss

Author:Andrew Shue

“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.”

Matter Problem Opportunity Perspective Insignificant Severity

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.”

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.”

Wells Matter Done Certain Sound Practice Theory Perspective Guides Drawing Ships Compass Sailor Gateways Rudders

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.”

Ifs Matter Use Might Able Sides Results Views Perspective Fairs Prejudice Regard Disappointment Excuse Comforting Save Me

Author:Karl Kraus

“You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.”

Matter Perspective Lows My Friends Criticism Distance Point Of View Relate Deceptive

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.”

Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

“Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.”

People Thinking Trying Matter Kids Stuff Perspective Band

Author:Matt Berninger

“When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.”

Firsts Matter Purpose Games Names Goal Prayer Player Perspective No Matter What Tonight Platforms Lifting Lifting Up

Author:Luke Zeller

“I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Matter Form Differences Perspective Findings Miserable Torture Live Your Life Defining Think Of You Finding Happiness Define Yourself

Author:Sarah Silverman

“From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.”

Matter Names Perspective Bin Laden

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.”

Trying Matter Whole Wanted Perspective Periods Reviews Transition

Author:Van Morrison

“Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.”

Has Beens Matter Wise Magic Perspective Wine Disaster Firm Inconvenience Counselor Wands Magic Wands

Author:Duff Cooper

“From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says, wait a minute, what matters to women in Afghanistan matters to America. An isolationist point of view says it doesn't matter. The articulation of "all life matters" helps frame the case that it does matter what happens to a woman in Afghanistan.”

“I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that.”

Important Sometimes Matter Subjects Perspective Cameras Obvious Satisfied Subject Matter Experimentation Playfulness

Author:Michael Kenna

“We live in a state-centric world faced with global-scale problems that cannot be met by the actions of single states, no matter how powerful, if assessed from the perspective of military capabilities.”

Ifs World Matter States Problem Action Powerful Military Perspective Mets Scales Capability

Author:Richard A. Falk

“I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young minded perspective and if you're not smart enough to realize that in life evolution is real. What that means is, we all are evolving and getting older every second of the day. That means it's about what you know, what you do and how hard you press the button to make it go. If you're not willing to put it in the time, energy and work in, then it doesn't matter how young you are. You'll be here and gone tomorrow if you don't learn something.”

“With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.”

Doe Matter Perspective Victim Passages Turning Points Passage Of Time

Author:Jon Meacham

“Truth is truth, you are who you are, and though your viewpoint might change, and though you might possess a different perspective about something, your heart and what you believe and who you are inside is only ever you...and you have to follow your heart, you have to believe what you're doing is right, and no matter what anyone might say or think or do you have to trust yourself to make the right decision.”

Thinking Believe Heart Different Matter Might Decision Perspective Truth Is No Matter What Who You Are Follow Your Heart Trust Yourself Viewpoints Different Perspective Right Decision Make The Right Decision

Author:R.J. Ellory

“You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.”

“What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.”

May Matter Awareness Perspective Nonsense

Book:The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics

Source: The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics

“...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”

Littles Matter Stories Happens Events Perspective Perception Significance

Book:The Hakawati

Source: The Hakawati

“As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.”

Way Years Long Matter Perspective Surprising Long Ago Topics New Perspective

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.”

“Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

Thinking Men Matter Perspective Mets Immortal

Author:Michael Scott

“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.”

Source: Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation

“It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.”

Thinking Knows Way Wells Long Matter Sides Five Four Objects Perspective Gray Robes

Author:Hilari Bell

“Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.”

People Knows Way Looks Important Different Matter Certain Fighting Differences Perspective Important Things Bridges Gaps

Book:The Lake

Source: The Lake

“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”

Men Matter Perspective Criminals Servant Public Servants

Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.”

Knows Persons Matter Faces Difficult Sides Differences Steps Perspective Partners Opponents Either Or

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.”

World Looks Matter Eye Suffering Values Peace Events Perspective Remains Suspects Oppressed Powerless World History Outcast Incomparable Great Events New Eyes

Book:Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings

Source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings

“Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.”

Want Ends Matter Sports Perspective Depends Motivational Sports

Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what”

Matter Perspective No Matter What

Book:Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

Source: Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

“Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.”

People Want Matter Behinds Perspective Prison Bars Locked Locked Up

Author:Wesley Snipes

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