Quotes About Perspective

No. I've seen enough brains to last

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask." —Sam Keen

I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try for them at all.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." ? Robert McCloskey

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In storytelling, logic is retroactive.

Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, holding reality together or tearing it apart, and cannot be directly observed.

Most human beings believe that life brings closed experiences of absolute, irreversible change; that their greatest sources of conflict are external to themselves; that they are the single and active protagonists of their own existence; that their existence operates through continuous time within a consistent, causally interconnected reality; and that inside this reality events happen for explainable and meaningful reasons.

Art consists of separating one tiny piece from the rest of the universe and holding it up in such a way that it appears to be the most important, fascinating thing of this moment.

live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.

La escena no trata de lo que parece tratar en la escena. Trata de otra cosa.

Sí yo fuera este personaje y en estas circunstancias nuevas, ¿qué haría?". Tras encontrar el camino hasta esa reacción y esa acción, volvemos a salir de ese punto de vista y preguntamos, "¿qué sería lo contrario?

They think life is A, B, C, D, E. That's just when life likes to turn you around, kick you in the butt, and grin: "Not today, my friend. Today it's E, D, C, B, A. Sorry." PRINCIPLE

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

We burned to death 100 000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

We see what we want to believe.

So much of life is out of our control. I've learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself.

When you compare the first three crashes of the 21st century to the giant crash of 1929, you gain a perspective of how truly "giant" the first three crashes of this century were.

As messed up as my life was at times, I greatly appreciated my own unique life.

Most people would rather live within their means than expand their means.

It was a singular point of view that made all the difference over a lifetime.