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...

You don’t see the world as it is, you see it,as you are.

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and...

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to...

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,on the star tree,pale with luminousocean leaves.

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis — especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he...

We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another’s story, to see the vast expanse of the world...

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to...

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make...

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

But what I knew in my head stayed up there, swirling about the other ten zillion things I had retained. That knowledge informed my actions, what I did and how I did it.What Emma knew...

I’ve wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn’t change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I...

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we’re on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

I want people to watch this show and realize that the way they see themselves may not be the way they are. Perspective is everything and adding a new piece of information can change your...

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be...

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

With a local perspective on the Portland market, we believe we can quickly improve revenues at the hotel following the implementation of our proprietary management and marketing systems.

Imagine a wall that’s green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We’ll both be...

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like...

Include a few moments of quite time into your daily schedule; Breath deeply, evaluate your thoughts, delete the negative ones and reset your mind to a positive perspective by counting your blessings and overflowing opportunities.

We will be seeking the academic perspective throughout this process, and in fact have begun so already with the formation of a faculty advisory committee.

You’d expect academics, people who are by training comfortable with complexity, to be the most resistant to the idea that we’re shaped by any single factor. In fact, they are often the worst offenders. Immersed...

Mujizat gampang terlihat dari sudut pandang takhayul.Miracles are easily seen from superstitious perspective.

He keeps it in perspective. When he talks to guys about going to the Coliseum, he wants to win, he’s not just happy to get there, he wants to win and I think that’s what...

Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political persuasion because it is inclined to shun...

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn’t mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the...

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, “Are we being good ancestors?

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing that man has one...

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we’re not looking at it in the right light yet.

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Thanks, that’s a great perspective.

It’s one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Sometimes I lose perspective, but it helps to stop and look around. I may not have it all, but I have more than enough. And enough, it seems, is more than most have…

…it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds,” be the birds each...

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you’re just too close to it.

Nations tend to see the other side’s war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the acts of stressed combatants. In my travels, I sense a smoldering...