Quotes About Perspective

Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my fault, but I couldn't "BELIEVE" it! Then I was talking to my friend Kieran and he explained to me in a way that I could PERCEIVE that I was not at fault. No one else could ever do that before, though many tried. Many, many people had tried to tell me it wasn't my fault, but I was convinced it was my fault because I was trying to cheer up my dad.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

reality is always plural and mutable.

Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Reality is what you can get away with.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

STREETER: Let's just not argue. You can call me stupid, all right. I can call you a coward, all right. It's just I believe one thing, you believe something else. I think the world's got an outside chance, you believe it hasn't. That's all.

See the world!! Gain perspective!! Appreciate Life!!

he finds himself stuck beside a road that only others will travel.

But in the real, messy world of creativity, giving away the thing you don't really understand for the thing that you do is an inevitable tradeoff.

I try to remember that except for a very few psychopaths, most people on most days are doing the best they can." I take that for my working motto, though I remain haunted by the thought that if "a kid is just a kid," then a sixteen-year-old kid is a kid just two years away from voting.

To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back.

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it."18

our typical reaction to scarcity hinders our ability to think.

WHO WE ARE IS WHERE WE ARE Whenever

They behave in accordance with what the contrast principle would suggest: Sell the suit first, because when it comes time to look at sweaters, even expensive ones, their prices will not seem as high in comparison.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it."2

Mostrar um produto barato primeiro e depois um caro fará com que este último pareça ainda mais caro.

numerosas investigaciones demuestran que reducir la distancia ante un objeto hace que parezca que este merece más la pena.

The value of mapping is that it allows us to understand, plan, and communicate about some experience or phenomenon without having to actually "be there.