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Quotes About Subjectivity

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we'd all fit inside some multiple-choice question.
~ Riley Cavanaugh
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
~ Albert Einstein
Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.
~ Will Alsop
Time does not have the same appeal for every one
~ William Shakespeare
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
~ Michael Ende
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
~ Gioachino Rossini
A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.
~ Umberto Boccioni
The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.
~ Scarlett Johansson
Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules.
~ Mario Batali
Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.
~ Robert Lanza
What i do in my personal time is about me. if other people dont agree, then it doesn't matter 'cos it's my opinion and that's what counts at the end of the day.
~ Louis Tomlinson
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
~ Graham Greene
Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.
~ Robert Lanza
For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
~ Natalie Babbitt
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
~ Thornton Wilder
In my opinion, consensual reality is better than facts. (Sukey Waller)
~ Anne Fadiman
I confess I didn't totally get it. We understand the world by extension of ourselves. It's hard to get why people feel differently. It's hard to believe they even do.
~ Anne Fleming
Who knows how much of our stories are true?
~ Anne Lamott
Who knows the colors someone else sees?
~ Anne Perry
Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We
~ Anne Rice
He knew her weakness. She wanted to be pretty, and thought she wasn't. When in fact he thought she was quite the prettiest thing in his memory.
~ Anne Stuart
All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity. You
~ Annie Barrows
The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.
~ Annie Dillard
If a tree falls and nobody's watching, then it doesn't make a sound
~ Scott Westerfeld