Roger B. Chaffee Quotes

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

I look at everything from 100,000 feet.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

I think sometimes you need distance to reflect.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.