Quotes About Having Perspective

#1. I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Andre Agassi

#2. The idea of having new perspectives on our planet, and actually being able to get that message out, gets me out of bed every day with a spring in my step.

Karen Bass

#3. wisdom is not having the right answers but having a proper sense of scale and perspective.

Jonathan Martin

#4. Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.

Joe Rogan

#5. Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

Robert Dilts

#6. I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

Barkhad Abdi

#7. Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#8. Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

Amanda De Cadenet

#9. When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.

Bill Bryson

#10. I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you're going through.

Soledad O'Brien

#11. First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

Shilpa Shetty

#12. All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.

Billy Corgan

#13. Having an eternal perspective can help when considering various choices in our lives. If we are honest, some decisions we have made in our lives would have been made differently if we had taken the time to think of them in terms of our eternal future.

Vance C. Kessler

#14. It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you're the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what's important.

John Roberts

#15. Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

Laura C. Schlessinger

#16. Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Meghan Markle

#17. I worry for you. If you love everyone, you'll end up having hurt feelings most of the time. I suppose, relative to the length of your life, you feel as if you've known me a rather long time. Your perspective of time is really very warped, Maya. But I am old and soon, you'll forget you even knew me.

Gabrielle Zevin

#18. Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.

Nick Shamhart

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

Jim Berg

#22. Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

Holly Madison

#23. The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

Pete Hoekstra

#24. Yet, for most, our journey toward having the healthiest perspective possible is shaped by the way we face and "make friends" with the periodic roadblocks we encounter on our way.

Robert J. Wicks

#25. Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun. And from a work perspective, we have projects under construction all over the world, including many right here in the US.

Ivanka Trump

#26. A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe. Having no power to remove him, I found that I could not go.
An awful thing sometime later befell me when the horse was removed from my toe. Alone and with naught to secure me, I found I was forced to go.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Guy Pearce

#28. Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him.

Adrienne Bailon

#29. The body is our general medium for having a world.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#30. I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

Ryan Gosling

#31. If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Steve Goodier

#32. Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

Robert Breault

#33. For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.

Rob Lowe

#34. I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.

Bobby Cannavale

#35. Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

Val Kilmer

#36. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.

Kemi Sogunle

#37. 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

#38. Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

Mark Wahlberg

#39. It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.

Frankie Rayder

#40. There are also several practical aspects to learning more about
our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of
our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focus
on what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life more
fully.

Vance C. Kessler

#41. If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.

John Naisbitt

#42. Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Taylor Hanson

#43. I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.

Dave Smalley

#44. It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"

Chris Pine

#45. It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

Tracey Ullman

#46. 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

#47. From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the balance of power in the region significantly shifting toward Iran. It's not an existential threat, but it would definitely be a problem for Israel.

Trita Parsi

#48. Not having any drink about ain't the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body's perspective.

Samuel Snoek-Brown

#49. A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Cheryl Strayed

#50. Sense of Wonder ( ... ) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe.

John Clute

#51. I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

Christine McVie

#52. Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Alain De Botton

#53. I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

Steve Daines

#54. Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.

Tess Daly

#55. One of the nice things - or not so nice things, depending on your perspective - about not having a cell phone is that you have to know people's phone numbers. Additionally, it keeps you from making meaningless acquaintances.

Penny Reid

#56. Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

Brad Pitt

#57. Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#58. And it's given me great perspective. It makes me really focused and efficient, which - I was focused before I had babies but I wasted a lot of time. Prior to having babies I thought I thought I was so busy and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

Kerri Walsh

#59. 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

#60. The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#61. Having the right perspective is tough when you're alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.

Clifton Anderson

#62. I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don't think they really are added to the end of life.

Anna Quindlen

#63. Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

Kate Winslet