Gaining Perspective Quotes

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Even when you lose, you get better. Sometimes when you lose, you win.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

The climb might be tough and challenging, but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

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

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.