Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 105

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
 Dan Millman
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.
 Rob Portman
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.
 Jonathan Ive
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
 Gregory Maguire
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.
 Lucretia Mott
Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.
 Hazel Hawke
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.
 V. S. Subramanya Iyer
The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation\'s interest.
The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest.
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
 John Wilmot
I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.
 Steve Gleason
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
 Jim Elliot
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
 Phil Jackson
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
 Annette Funicello
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
 Claudia Emerson
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
 Elizabeth Gaskell