Quotes About Perspective

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Life's like a fat orange, Frank thinks. When you're young, you squeeze it hard and fast, trying to get all the juice in a hurry. When you're older, you squeeze it slowly, savoring every drop. Because, one, you don't know how many drops you have left, and, two, the last drops are the sweetest.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

Living is more important than acceptance - acceptance is not as important as understanding. - Donald Allen Kirch

If you are feeling any kind of negative emotion, you can counteract it in the next sixty seconds by noticing something for which you're grateful.

y la paz se convirtió en algo desagradable para unos hombres a quienes la guerra había satisfecho durante largo tiempo las necesidades vitales.

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.

To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.

as Einstein put it 'Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live.

There are as many cubes as there are observers constructing cubes. And when you look away, your cube ceases to be.

If you play a video game on your computer, such as "Doom" or "Uncharted", you see compelling 3D worlds with 3D objects. Yet the information is entirely 2D, limited by the number of pixels on the screen. The same is true when you look away from your computer to the world around you. It too has pixels, and all the information is 2D.

The math is not the territory.

A glimpse of an eye is, for purposes of triggering the animate-monitoring system, a glimpse of the beast peering through that eye.

What we call 'reality,' consists of an elaborate papier-mâché construction of imagination and theory filled in between a few iron posts of observation."22 We

Perception is not a window on objective reality. It is an interface that hides objective reality behind a veil of helpful icons.

But other things had added to Jerry's present weird mood, his new view of himself as someone who'd suddenly found he was in a six-foot-deep rut when all along he'd thought of himself as sailing.

That's a geometric figure, that bird, he don't exist without an angle.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.

She said that one of the advantages of being ninety was that she could read a detective story again, only two weeks after she first read it, without any notion of which character was the villain.

I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is on the whole preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

There's one advantage to smoking, about which we agree. When our breathing starts to vanish, we will not ask, "Why me?

It is best to believe the praiser and dismiss the praise.

There's nothing more frightening to me than a character who thinks he knows what a real American is – mainly because it generally turns out he's convinced it's somebody like him. It seems an odd notion to me. I certainly don't want to live in a country populated with people just like me, God forbid! Anyway, I figure there's room for a little variety in a nation as big as ours.