Quotes About Perspective

We figure that's their

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're

Does it matter that the executioner likes his job?

You have to be able to compartmentalize all that. Your problem is you only have one compartment.

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

Theory of Mind to practical use—understanding how others see the world.

Each one helps us understand that our points of view are shaped by what we see, what we've been told, and, lastly, how we process it all.

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

People like Diana show us all that it doesn't matter how much you have or what benefits you are born with, your world can still be restricted by unhappiness and ill health.

For she was not of their world nor did she share their values. When she looked at a rose she savoured its beauty, they counted the petals.

life, she had decided that the English were not

This needs a woman's touch', was her common refrain. Her view in essence was that so many issues and problems in a male-dominated world derive from the aggressive, secretive and often insensitive masculine ego. Problems could be more effectively addressed, she felt, when female qualities, as she saw them, of intuition, compassion, compromise and harmony were added to the equation.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself...

he simply and probably naively assumed so much about me, about us. Right now, it didn't occur to him that I wouldn't agree with his political thoughts, or that I would dislike to make something he enjoyed eating. It was as if he believed that I would always trim and cut around my thoughts and feelings so they would slip in comfortably beside his own. He was confident that my surrender or compromise was part of that famous female DNA

As I looked across the table at Ronnie and watched how he studied this uncomplicated menu, I wondered if the simple answer to all bad marriages is that one outgrows the other. Maybe people shouldn't marry until they're in their fifties.

I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented

They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.

The thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don't matter – we can't bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn't quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don't experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love.

The past isn't really the past," Tully said. "It's just music, books, and films.

Reality's got a lot to answer for

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

A family is a group of people who have different versions of the same experience.

Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.