Lack of Perspective Quotes

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture. For example, in education, a teacher might say in the next class he was going to "explain Young's modulus and how to measure it," rather than, "I am going to educate the students and prepare them for their future careers".

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar lack of perspective toward men.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.