Quotes About Perspective

News in not what happened but a story about what happened.

Our concept of truth becomes more universal as we reach higher levels of consciousness and awareness, taking in a wider spectrum of information and possibility. As we adapt a more expanded perspective on our reality, our concept of what is true and meaningful changes--from local to regional, regional to global, beyond global to the galaxy, and then to the cosmos.

How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish above all in the lofty those things that nourish you here, today, in all your ordinariness? I cannot understand, in other words, what sort of God would bother to count every hair on my head.

A liberating way to view time, I find, is as splodges lying in clusters all around me. Instead of hopping obediently from link to link along a chain toward extinction, I pause in a puddle of it here and wallow in a pool of it there.

John Cleese, in a clever, funny talk he gave on creativity years ago, said you also need a sense of humour if you want to be creative. You can't manufacture a sense of humour, but if you don't have one, then you might indeed be better off reporting facts. Art is not about reporting.

unfamiliar lens; repeatedly, he takes the raw materials of life and reshapes them into teasing fragments of narrative. All that is missing is a plot where they can snap into place.

Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

There come a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

The world, it seemed, had been busy playing chess, While I had played checkers . . . and ignored the rest.

My friends' thirty dollars wouldn't go far with gas at thirty-six cents a gallon.

And that was when I came to realize that what is important is not what is true, but what people believe is true and what they're willing to do for that belief.

When ninety-five percent of your life is good, don't sweat the other five percent.

Now, as an adult with that healthy dose of perspective we call experience, I realize my mother was right, as she was so often when it came to my life.

halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, "when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

Celia laughed. "You're like a seventeen-year-old girl on a prom date. Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don't see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn't we see something so obvious as color?

Attorneys were often the worst witnesses, believing their place to be on the other side of the podium, asking, not answering questions.

consensus was that Wright didn't see as much as the camera lens;

You know that saying, the one I've told the kids about growing old being a privilege, not a right?

pitched off-kilter at almost a forty-five-degree angle.

It's like my dad used to say. If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

I realize now that this was circular reasoning impregnable to debate.

The thing about memories is they're rarely as you remember them.