Put Into Perspective Quotes

#1. A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

Barry S. Strauss

#2. When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective ... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

John C. Maxwell

#3. It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

A. N. Wilson

#4. You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

Jim Butcher

#5. He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.

Mark Haddon

#6. People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

John Diamond

#7. Funny how a crisis can put life into perspective, fine-tune the eye of the heart, like laser surgery. In less than a minute everything comes into a twenty-twenty view.

Rachel Hauck

#8. Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#9. I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

Delta Goodrem

#10. You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Ruby Dee

#11. We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective ...

Ronald Reagan

#12. The training program wasn't a survival course, but sometimes a person came through who put the horrors of 41 into perspective.

Michael Lewis

#13. Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Charles Stanley

#14. Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

Barry Ritholtz

#15. Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

Daniel S. Loeb

#16. If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

Sophie Kinsella

#17. Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

Pico Iyer

#18. To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

Christine Todd Whitman

#19. I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

Sean Bean

#20. Put the small stuff into perspective. It's better to be wrong and alive than right but eating brains.

Jesse Petersen

#21. When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Christine Lagarde

#22. Most difficult problems become very easy when we learn how to put things into perspective.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Structuring our feelings helps add reality to them. In fact, para-doxically, many of the invalidating things that people do are attempts to structure us. But the time for structuring is after validation. After our feelings have been validated, we can understand them and put them into perspective.

Henry Cloud

#24. If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.

Travis Bradberry

#25. 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

#26. It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

Bob Schieffer

#27. In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.

Jack Goldstein

#28. Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Wim Wenders

#29. When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

David Whyte

#30. It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you.

Tony Curl

#31. Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that - in my humble opinion - allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

Mohsin Hamid

#32. 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

#33. For me, having kids put so much into perspective. I wasn't so worried about my career and what I did or didn't achieve. Because, suddenly, I was like, "As long as this baby is healthy and safe, everything else is fine."

Milla Jovovich

#34. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Beyonce Knowles