It’s a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out...

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened—by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people...

From my perspective, the pressure is off. This season we came in knowing that next year we’re going to be 1B and it’s going to be a completely different format. We’ve been to state seven...

Everyone’s perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.

Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least...

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people’s sorrow.

In an apple to apples comparison, from the customers’ perspective, their total cost of ownership in an on-demand model is really 80 percent less than it would be had they done it on premise. And...

There are those among us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One’s destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

People’s realities are the result of their perceptions.

If you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keeping your pimple in perspective. You might compare your pimple situation to that of...

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.

While we do this, from a player’s perspective it would be advantageous if we got fan support.

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh…the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

It’s harder to pick and choose when you’re dead. It’s like a photograph, you know. It doesn’t matter as much.

To have the kick blocked. It kind of put everything into perspective – like maybe it just ain’t our year. Things are not going the right way for us.

Photography is all about the perspective!

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a...

So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent...

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.

I just have this unnatural fascination with Elvis. I guess it reminds me of how important perspective is. You know, watch out or you might wind up wearing really silly costumes with Hawaiian leis.

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates “tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.

Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn.

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and ‘presentism’ is his original sin.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I’ve had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success....

You are not getting paid to hold cash anymore. I think if you look at it from that perspective you see an asset allocation switch going on, which is helping this rally.

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they’ve already been around into the distant future.

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’?

use the difficulty” in your life?

Life is a repeated cycle of getting lost and then finding yourself again. There are many smaller cycles within that cycle where you get lost to a smaller degree and then remember yourself again. Sometimes...

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

I’m a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it’s never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

I feel from our perspective very strongly that supporting states that support state terrorism is a genuine problem for us,

It was as if he’d suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he made a conscious effort to simplify his life, with the goal...

As children’, wrote Alice Raikes (Mrs. Wilson Fox) in The Times, January 22, 1932, ‘we lived in Onslow Square and used to play in the garden behind the houses. Charles Dodgson used to stay with...

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a...

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

When you’re at peace, you embrace the eternity.When you’re confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city…you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were...

Leo Strauss’s discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.