Quotes About Perspective

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.

We are self-determined by the meaning we give to our experiences; and there is probably something of a mistake always involved when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. There

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

One epoch's popular culture is another's esoterica.

The Sedative Garden atop the Therapy Building was a triumph of therapeutic planning. Every perspective, every color, every contour had been designed to placate hostility, soothe resistance, melt anger, evaporate hysteria, shore up melancholia and depression.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission...was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose. I saw their point at once.

Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él.

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake

The map is not the territory.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.

Definitions create conditions.

Sen de benim kadar uzun ya?asayd?n, zalimlikle yard?mseverli?in ayn? rengin iki tonu oldu?unu anlard?n.?#?romansokakta?

She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.