Change of Perspective Quotes

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

The matter does not appear to me now as it has appears to have appeared to me then.

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

I loathed my first term boarding at Bryanston school in Dorset. I hated being away from home; I think I had my parents in tears every time I spoke to them. I regret being so spoilt because within two terms I loved it.

Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.

I'd been with Saints for 13 years, so it was always going to be a bit strange going back for the first time.

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

Once you want something, everything changes.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.