Quotes About Perspective

Without any visual cues or any action on the part of others, we can place ourselves inside their minds and imagine what they might be thinking.

By making yourself aware of the distorting process of the Naïve Perspective, you will naturally grow less comfortable with it. You will realize that you are operating in the dark, blind to people's motivations and intentions, vulnerable to the same mistakes and patterns that occurred in the past.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only

We humans are born with a tremendous potential for understanding people on a level that is not merely intellectual. It is a power developed by our earliest ancestors, in which they learned how to intuit the moods and feelings of others by placing themselves in their perspective.

You will need a degree of humility in this process. You can never know exactly what people are thinking and can easily make mistakes, and so you must not rush to judgments but keep yourself open to learning more. People are more complex than you imagine. Your goal is to simply see their point of view better. As you go through this process, it becomes like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it.

There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Look at things as they are, not as your emotions color them.

The world is full of fools—people who cannot wait to get results, who change with the wind, who can't see past their noses. You encounter them everywhere: the indecisive boss, the rash colleague, the hysterical subordinate. When working alongside fools, do not fight them. Instead think of them the way you think of children, or pets, not important enough to affect your mental balance.

The Seesaw. Up and down and up and down go the arguers, getting nowhere fast. Get off the seesaw and show them your meaning without kicking or pushing. Leave them at the top and let gravity bring them gently to the ground.

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after.

Powerful people judge everything by what it costs, not just in money but in time, dignity, and peace of mind.

El problema es que, por lo general, estamos demasiado absortos en nosotros mismos: pensamos más en lo que queremos de otras personas que en lo que ellas podrían querer de nosotros.

Daily Law: The person with the more global perspective wins. Expand your gaze.

Empathy plays an enormous role in learning and knowledge.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. —Franz Kafka

More important, such events share a second feature, one that is absent from an increase in taxes: they reduce our own incomes while leaving others' incomes unaffected. Higher taxes, in contrast, reduce all incomes in tandem. This difference holds the key to understanding the mother of all cognitive illusions.

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

You were too young to fight in the last war, and I was too old. In some ways that made it worse.

This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.

A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.

I feel as if I have walked into a mirrored room and glimpsed myself from an unfamiliar angle for the first time. Is that really what I look like? Is that who I am?

The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: 'What disturbs and alarms man are not the things but his opinions and fancies about the things.

From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.

at that instant i knew there was no horror the world could offer - no war, no genocide, no famine, no childhood cancer - to which Sidney Kroll would not see the funny side