Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes she speaks of 'the past' as people speak who have been in prison. But you never know whether they refer to the crime or the imprisonment or the whole experience.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

He felt that to succeed here the idea of success must grasp and limit his mind.

No one cares about us but ourselves, Anthony," she said one day. "It'd be ridiculous for me to go about pretending I felt any obligations toward the world, and as for worrying what people think about me, I simply don't, that's all.

U mojim mla?im i tanko?udnim godinama otac mi je dao savjet na koji se u mislima ?esto vra?am. -Kad god osjetiš želju da nekoga osudiš - kazao mi je - sjeti se samo toga da nisu svi ljudi na svijetu imali onih prednosti koje si ti imao.

This isn't just an epigram – life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

A la vida se la observa mejor desde una sola ventana.

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. (201)

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

There's a difference somewhere." Being a supreme egotist Ardita frequently

I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to hm, entirely justified.

life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo que he tenido en cuenta desde entonces. Cada vez que sientas deseos de criticar a alguien - me dijo-, recuerda que no todas las personas de este mundo han tenido los mismos privilegios que tú.

hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort

Cuando quieras criticar a alguien, me dijo, recuerda que toda la gente de este mundo no ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú.

Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale».

She didn't like it, he said immediately. Of course she did. She didn't like it, he insisted. She didn't have a good time. He was silent and I guessed at his unutterable depression. I feel far away from her, he said. It's hard to make her understand. You mean about the dance? The dance? He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. Old sport, the dance is unimportant.

loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.