Perspective Of Others Quotes

#1. Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.

David Livermore

#2. 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

#3. Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

Thomas Merton

#4. It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. Friendships and relationships change my perspective. Once I change my perspective, I live differently. When we gain a heart of compassion toward others who have less, we want to give more. Our view of what we need radically shifts.

Jeff Shinabarger

#7. I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Mary McCarthy

#8. True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able to laugh off a lot of things between myself and others, but it's still difficult trying to look at things from their perspectives.

Jessica Jung

#10. We all need Friendship, never forget that our most luck comes because of others.

Jan Jansen

#11. No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

A.J. Darkholme

#12. I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Jonathan Kieran

#13. We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
to see world from other people's perspective.

Toba Beta

#14. My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Greta Van Susteren

#15. Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

Kamala Harris

#16. Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the converse is equally true ... From this perspective, every spiritual exercise is a dialogue, insofar as it is an exercise of authentic presence, to oneself and to others.

Pierre Hadot

#17. The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

Thomas Hughes

#18. Pushiness is always at war with stubborness.

Toba Beta

#19. Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.

Michael S. Roth

#20. Each meal is an opportunity to express yourself to others, sharing a different perspective of your personality.

Margaret Chapman

#21. Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

#22. I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.

Parul Wadhwa

#23. He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims
the outcasts of society; or the opposite, people so blessed, others coveted their lives.

Brynn Chapman

#24. When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

Christine Caine

#25. The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

Nicholas Negroponte

#26. Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

Oswald Chambers

#27. I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

Spencer W. Kimball

#28. 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.

Alfred Richard Orage

#29. From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

Stanley Hauerwas

#30. When we get rid of our ego, we stop doing things to impress others, we stop trying to cling to the idea of ourselves and we realize that we are a part of the natural world. This realization will give us the perspective that is greatly needed to improve the state of our society.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#31. Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day.

John G. Bennett

#32. When you face discouragement, you can do one of two things, and the one you choose will color your perspective. You can look at others to place the blame, or you can look at yourself to discover your opportunities. The choice is yours.

John C. Maxwell

#33. I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and gave me a new perspective and a direction in life. I decided to dedicate myself to others and till date I am continuing to follow that decision.

Narendra Modi

#34. Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others ...

Alexandre Dumas

#35. A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

James Cook

#36. It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Daisaku Ikeda

#37. And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

Steve Goodier

#38. Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves

Herman Van Rompuy

#39. 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

#40. Only those who'd changed could see
things from a different point of view.

Toba Beta

#41. As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.

Emily Yoffe

#42. Seeing when you justify yourself and when you blame others is not a reason to criticize yourself, but actually an opportunity to recognize what all people do and how it imprisons us in a very limited perspective of this world.

Pema Chodron