Quotes About Perspective

All your suffering is rooted in a single superstition which is that you believe you live in a world when in truth the world lives in you." Imagine for a moment that the world is not a physical place that is separate from you, but rather a projection of your state of mind. If this is so, then your mind really can move mountains. There are three dominant worldviews

When a man falls in love suddenly his whole centre changes. Up to that point he has probably referred everything to himself--considered things from his own point. When he falls in love the whole thing is shifted; he becomes a part of the circumference--perhaps even the whole circumference; someone else becomes the centre.

How difficult it was to hold the eyes focused on that far horizon when this world lay in the foreground so compelling in its splendour and its strength!

How difficult it was to hold the eyes focussed on that far horizon when this world lay in the foreground so compelling in its splendour and its strength!

Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is--utterly unreasonable.

People rarely like the humanitarian plans of their social superiors.

This is what I see," becomes replaced by a question: "Is this what I see?" You share his hesitations about the positions of a tree or a branch; or the final shape of Mont Ste-Victoire, and the trees in front of it. Relativity is all. Doubt becomes part of the painting's subject.

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

weird ideas spark innovation because each helps companies do at least one of three things: (1) increase variance in available knowledge, (2) see old things in new ways, and (3) break from the past. These are the three basic organizing principles for innovative work

As Max DePree, former CEO of furniture maker Herman Miller, put it, "The first job of a leader is to define reality.

Vu ja de means seeing old things that are inside and outside the company in new ways.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. —Henry David Thoreau

an idea is creative when it is new to people who use or evaluate it, and (at least some of them) believe it could be valuable to themselves or others.

Hire newcomers that other people in your company will dislike." David

If you hire people who prompt discomfort in yourself and others, take extra care to listen to their ideas and insist that others do so as well.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."23

Michael told me that he designs the "how" part of his actions "with the other person's point of view in mind." Even when breaking off with an asshole, he works to "convey the truth in respectful and empathetic ways.

Discuta como si tuviera razón, escuche como si estuviese equivocado».

If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you are right.

He observed himself performing an act of kindness toward Franklin, which he explained to himself by constructing the most plausible story—that he did so willfully, because he liked Franklin after all.