Quotes About Perspective

En realidad, pedimos tres cosas: 1) gracia; 2) conocer; 3) rechazar los pecados. "Gracia" significa "don". Rezamos para que Dios nos dé el don de ver a través de los ojos de Dios. Otra forma de expresar esto es que le pedimos a Dios que nos dé el don de ver los dones que Dios nos da.

Nothing is true and all is allowed

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Mr. Gaddis admitted the school wasn't much to look at before dropping the first match and lighting another. "But it's better than nothing." It is nothing! I screamed. Inside my head, of course. And I might even have said it out loud except I was too shocked to open my mouth. Johnnie Hatter's hole in the riverbank is probably better than this.

The objective of the scenario approach is not to decide which scenario is right…. There is no 'right' answer.

Likewise, when we lose money in the market we think we must have been wrong.

However, in the markets losses should be viewed like the light bulbs or rotten fruit mentioned earlier: part of the business and taken with equanimity. Loss is not the same as wrong, and loss is not necessarily bad.

Are you long because you are bullish or bullish because you are long?

It is the loss side on which you must focus first

That taught me that there are people for places, places for people. You can do some things and you can't do other things. Don't get all upset about the things you can't do. If you can't do something, pay someone else who can and don't worry about it.

We live in the world we made up.

All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.

There's nothing worse than two people who have on the same position talking to each other about the position.

You must pick the loss side first. Why? Otherwise, after you enter the market everything you look at and hear will be skewed in favor of your position.

But there's a world of difference between knowing a type and knowing a person. When you've traveled all over the planet, as I have, and communicate with people from other cultures, you come to understand that, ultimately, very few human beings conform to the stereotypes imposed upon them. And, for the most part, we all want the same things out of life.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

Honest men in prison know that there is no such thing as "brainwashing" or "breaking." These expressions of self-delusion never find use behind bars. They are just unfortunate metaphors that allow people outside prison to be less uncomfortable in discussing human limitations.

Let me start with the overobvious, boxed in a cliché, wrapped in some truisms.

sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

There is absolutely nothing that can replace money in the things that money does, but regarding the rest of the things in the world, money is absolutely useless.

A journey should never be judged by the destination or mode of transportation. It should be judged by the friends who accompany us on the trip.