Keep Perspective Quotes

#1. I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Emilio Estevez

#2. It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.

Jennifer Connelly

#3. I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Laura Esquivel

#4. To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Anthony Edwards

#5. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

Colleen Hoover

#6. Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example ... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

Eric Allin Cornell

#7. I keep my work in perspective. I place my happiness, health, relationships, and joy above all else.

Anonymous

#8. I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it ... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

Zach Johnson

#9. I also know about running away," I said, when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happiness, the"-I searched for a word and had to settle on- "the joy when sticking around and fighting things mean I get to keep the people I love near me.

Faith Hunter

#10. I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

Barack Obama

#11. If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.

Micha Bar-Am

#12. It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Anthony Edwards

#13. My heart grows every day through struggling and love of my kids. It helps balance everything else - the work and the world. It helps keep me grounded and in perspective of what is really meaningful to me.

Kathryn Erbe

#14. Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Aimee Mann

#15. If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

Jim Abbott

#16. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

Barack Obama

#17. He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.

Isabel Allende

#18. Always keep in mind ... It is extremely important to start each and every one of your days with a positive perspective ... it will get you everywhere!

Timothy Pina

#19. It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Katrina Bowden

#20. I'm probably less serious about my game than I was in the past. I've lost a brother and father in the past six years. And what about people who have lost friends and comrades in war? Golf is a game. You've got to keep that in perspective.

Peter Jacobsen

#21. You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

Tony Parker

#22. Everyone suffers personal setbacks. If you're experiencing difficulty in your career or personal life, keep it in perspective - by persevering through your difficulties, you're building a stronger personality in you. Never give up!.

Auliq Ice

#23. SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.

Ban Ki-moon

#24. I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

Demi Moore

#25. I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#26. When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

Bernard Baruch

#27. Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.

Travis Bradberry

#28. Always keep things in perspective.

Angie Martinez

#29. The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.

Louis Rukeyser

#30. Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.

Max Anders

#31. Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.

Guy Pearce

#32. There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

C.S. Lewis

#33. He admired Fan for being Fan, which is to say the kind of person who would keep the right perspective on such qualified information).

Chang-rae Lee

#34. Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Jean Webster

#35. Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Shelley Moore Capito

#36. As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'

James B. Martino

#37. I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.

Richard Brancatisano

#38. If you keep your perspective correct and understand that people are coming to you because your gift makes room for you in the world, then you do not need to wonder or worry about having to misplace your importance as a person.

Myles Munroe

#39. 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

#40. I believe the present matters
not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms
a false perspective. - Hilda Lee

Agatha Christie

#41. I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.

Gary Sinise

#42. You can replace negative self-talk with optimistic thoughts. It is possible to change a negative perspective on life into a positive life force if you keep a sense of proportion.

Lynn C. Tolson

#43. When you have Chick Night to look forward to, it can be your light at the end of a long and trying month. It can help you maintain your balance, keep your perspective, and hold on to your sanity during times when you're actually afraid to wonder what else could go wrong.

Colleen Kleven

#44. Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#45. The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside; to keep a cool head and keep working without getting frustrated.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#46. If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

Damon Hill

#47. Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Nido R. Qubein

#48. You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

Myles Munroe

#49. Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living, a way of practicing your approach to life that allows you to keep a healthy perspective on things.

Adam Rodriguez

#50. We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.

Guilherme Leal

#51. I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I've lost perspective. Mostly I'm just glad that I can be done with them.

Kelly Link

#52. Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Ernest Cline

#53. I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

Vince Gilligan

#54. And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

John Rowland

#55. 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

#56. My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#57. I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I'm cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting.

Marc Maron

#58. He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

Michael Kinsley

#59. The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

#60. So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Steve Jobs

#61. Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.

Vera Nazarian

#62. He knew me that fucking well.
No one on earth should know a person that well.
Lovers should have secrets.
In fact, they need them.
Some part of you should stay a mystery in every relationship. Enough mystery to keep some distance and a bit of perspective.

R.K. Lilley

#63. To live happier, more fulfilling lives, when we encounter a difficult circumstance, we must keep shifting our perspective and continually ask ourselves, "Is there a wiser, more enlightened way of looking at this seemingly negative situation?

Robin S. Sharma

#64. There are seasons in life. Don't ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season ... Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective.

Jane Clayson

#65. I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

Corbin Bernsen

#66. If, on the other hand, I relate to others from the perspective of myself as someone different - a Buddhist, a Tibetan, and so on - I will then create walls to keep me apart from others.

Dalai Lama XIV

#67. My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.

George Clooney

#68. Remember a few months ago when I told you sometimes we have to have really bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective?" I think I nod. I can't really feel my body anymore. "Well, this is one of the good days. This is one of the really good days.

Colleen Hoover

#69. I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

Elia Kazan

#70. Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#71. Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts

Ray J

#72. By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away.

Arianna Huffington

#73. Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

Bill Crawford

#74. Create an atmosphere without fear and encourage laughter. Of course, there will be consequences for wrong decisions, but people shouldn't be so apprehensive that they are fearful to make any decision. Humor can help keep things in perspective.

Jim Korkis

#75. while there's a lot that I don't know about the world, I do know that kids have a funny way of helping you keep things in perspective.

Nicholas Sparks

#76. First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

Marco Rubio