Quotes About Perspective

it is human nature that what starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement.

Truth, in other words, was a matter of perspective.

sixth birthday?" asked Cicero. "He told me over dinner the other night: 'More people worship a rising than a setting sun.

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please explain to him that I am a son of a bitch

Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained through ignorance.

A whore should be judged by the same criteria as other professionals offering services for pay — such as dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, etc. Is she professionally competent? Does she give good measure? Is she honest with her clients? It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." Robert Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGELAND

Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong.

The University of Michigan's Karl Weick advises, "Fight as if you are right; listen as if you are wrong.

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

Juilin, she asked hesitantly, what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly, she added more quickly. Just a general idea. He looked at her for a moment. I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad.

I expect you will not lack for company after I go. Just remember that some women see a man with their hearts, while others see no more than a bauble to wear, no different than a necklace or a bracelet. Remember that i will come back, and I am one who sees with her heart.

The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.

There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.