Top 71 See Things Differently Quotes
#1. Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.
Amy Poehler
#2. A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently
Richard Posner
#3. I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
Seth Godin
#4. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.
Stephen R. Covey
#5. To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
Fred Wilson
#6. Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
Henry Rollins
#7. We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
James Hillman
#8. You don't need to see different things, but rather to see things differently.
Lama Surya Das
#9. Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.
Neal Shusterman
#10. Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently ... Rock on!
Steve Jobs
#11. It's an amazing experience when you focus on the positive things in your life. Things start to change. You become happier. You see things differently. There might still be negative things there, but like an airplane flying overhead, they become the background noise of your mind.
Tom Giaquinto
#13. It's all right, little woman, take my word for it. If I were you, I'd cry. You'll see things differently through your tears.
George Barr McCutcheon
#14. An art machine is a system
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently
David Antin
#15. In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broadened, enriched, expanded, and deepened.
Rob Bell
#16. One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.
Jane Campion
#17. I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.
Ishmael Reed
#18. Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#19. As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.
Dennis Quaid
#20. I continue to evolve as a human, I see things differently everyday so it's sure my songs will continue to change and it's a really good thing. It's nice to listen to my music and remember why I made it.
Marilou
#21. You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
Steve Earle
#22. Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.
Jennifer Allwood
#23. The Path Out Of The Valley Appears When You Choose To See Things Differently.
Spencer Johnson
#24. But that makes sense. We'd have to see things differently in order to be able to handle eternity.
Luke Smitherd
#25. When we dare to see things differently, life opens up to our eyes.
Paulo Coelho
#26. If you wake during the night, any thoughts and feelings you might have are from your Chimp and they are often very disturbing, catastrophic and lacking in perspective. In the morning you are likely to regret engaging with these thoughts and feelings because you will see things differently.
Steve Peters
#27. Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.
Frederick Lenz
#28. You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Jim Rohn
#29. It is often difficult to answer the same question repeatedly, but it is more difficult for them to realize they never seem to have answers to life's questions. Try to look at life from the perspective with which your loved one is living. It will help you see things differently.
Carol Howell
#30. Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Paul Klee
#32. Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.
Ian Bogost
#33. In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.
Barbara Mikulski
#34. As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.
Eric Balfour
#35. We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently
Stephen R. Covey
#37. In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears.
Rhonda Britten
#38. The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings.
Dee Williams
#39. Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.
Bob Ross
#40. Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.
Charlotte McKinney
#41. Calvin: "I read this library book you got me."
Calvin's Mom: "What did you think of it?"
Calvin: "It really made me see things differently. It's given me a lot to think about."
Calvin's Mom: "I'm glad you enjoyed it."
Calvin: "It's complicating my life. Don't get me any more.
Bill Watterson
#42. The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
Alberto Giacometti
#43. Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film.
Graham Moore
#44. I think that if we can find the words, and if we can find someone to tell them to, then perhaps we can see things differently. But I had no words, and I had nobody. - 153
Linda Olsson
#45. A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot.
Steven Magee
#46. HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]
J: People do.
HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see.
~Hilary Craven; Jessop
Agatha Christie
#47. I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that other people get something out of them, enjoy them, see the world differently when they're done.
Colson Whitehead
#48. It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.
Alison Mosshart
#49. When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that is
imposed by others on us.
M. Laurie Cantil
#50. I hate that I let myself be so passive my whole life, and I see now how differently things could've been if I'd had faith in myself when it mattered. I don't want to go back to that. I won't. Not ever.
Tahereh Mafi
#51. I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
Joe Abercrombie
#52. I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can ... See things a little differently and whatnot.
Warren Christie
#53. Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.
Gordon T. Smith
#54. Experts see the world differently. They notice things that nonexperts don't see. They home in on the information that matters most, and have an almost automatic sense of what to do with it.
Joshua Foer
#55. As clearly and objectively as we think we see things, we begin to realize that others see them differently from their own apparently equally clear and objective point of view
Anonymous
#56. I guess we can all look back and see things in our lives that we could or should have done differently - and better - and
Duff McKagan
#57. When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.
Robert Adams
#58. My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.
Rickie Fowler
#59. That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.
Will Schwalbe
#60. I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
Edi Rama
#61. I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got
Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
So then why get upset if somebody like me
Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
Al Yankovic
#62. Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that.
Oscar Wilde
#63. To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth II
#64. One of the most important tools he taught me was to look at things from different perspectives. That no matter what I saw, someone else could see things
differently, and that I needed to see things from all vantage points in order to see a situation clearly.
Debra Lyn Pickman
#65. Followers of Jesus don't so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
Leonard Sweet
#66. I have a terrible lifestyle. And I don't really see it changing. Maybe in 10 years I'll see it differently - I'll want to see my great-grandchildren and live forever. But right now, young Brittany is not setting things up for old Brittany. And young Brittany does not care.
Brittany Howard
#67. People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the sadness and beauty of life. And sometimes, because we're bathed in laughter, we are protected. Or at least, humour can help us see the world differently.
Bruce McCulloch
#68. I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.
Joel Silver
#69. I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things.
They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects.
If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker ... then you
have to think differently.
Mark Weiser
#70. When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.
Deborah Tannen
#71. You don't see the world the way other people do. And when you let your guard down, the way you think, the way you say things ... you make people look at things differently. You make people feel things.
Priscilla Glenn
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