Perspective Quotes

“Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.”
― Miguel Syjuco

“The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.”
― Steve Maraboli , Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the grass under all those fossil fern trees. Even the sunlight must have been different, and the wind. What can bones tell you about a kind of wind that doesn't blow anymore?”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Folk of the Air

“We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.”
― Whipplesnaith

“Those two little words -- says you -- are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?”
― J. Mark Bertrand, Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World

“Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.”
― Ian McNulty

“In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.”
― Lynn Cullen, The Creation of Eve

“Yefgenii said, "The Americans spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. What did we do?" Gevorkian's head was down, his eyes were down. "What did we do?"
Gevorkian lifted his head "We used pencils."
"We used pencils.”
― Jed Mercurio, Ascent