Quotes About Perspective

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.

en realidad a todo el mundo le daba igual cómo se viviría dentro de cuarenta años, solo querían llegar vivos.

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.

For many centuries people have believed that there is continuity between the individual in utero and the individual in the world; now there is solid evidence that this ancient belief is correct, albeit in a far more complex and nuanced way than our ancestors ever imagined. But science can't tell us everything we need to know about this new perspective; there's always a gap where the hard evidence of the laboratory meets the soft flesh of our bodies.

Reading literature makes us better people.

Think of the task not in linear terms—tracing a direct line from point A to point B—but rather as a cycle: think, draw, look, rethink, redraw. Likewise, don't envision the mind telling the pencil what to do; instead, allow a conversation to develop between eye and hand,

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

As time went by, it mattered less and less that in 1969 a rocket went from Florida to the moon and men walked there. Good men. People's dads. Those were only events, scattered in time. Draw them close, rub them between thumb and finger till they look like larvae, soften like silk, distend to knot, to weave. It takes a village to kill a child.

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease.

The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday.

Every day is irreplaceable, so don't ruin yours by allowing the negative moods of others to pull you into their frame of mind.

An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.

Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.

The best way to lie is to tell the truth . . . carefully edited truth.

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen."