Top Perspective Quotes

What is a man but another man's memory

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

Perspective Definition

(n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

(n.) Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.

(a.) A glass through which objects are viewed.

(a.) That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.

(a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.

(a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.

(a.) A drawing in linear perspective.

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

He who sits/stands in front of the fire sees more than the flames.. He feels the heat! Too often from a distance others observe the flames only as a source of light.

What you see is highly dependent on how you look.

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to predict the...

In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine.-CynthiaDoesn't make yours any more fun to bear.-LizaNo. But it does help with the self-pity.- Cynthia

For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser behind the greater, according to a definite law of per...

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

There are many good things in the world, but not all of them benefit you. Focus keeps you on the path of what is right and away from other options.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncras...

I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change. Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way peopl...

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.