Quotes About Perspective

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

On est très loin de comprendre ce que c'est d'être aveugle, quand on ferme les yeux.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-

What you already have is better than what you so desperately seek.

The wizard laughed. "Even if you grew wings, foolish fish, you could not fly to a place that is not real." "Wrong," I said, "it does exist. Even if you don't believe in it, I do. Otherwise what's it all been for?

How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing.

Yet they spoke now across a glass-topped dining table as if words were just words, as if their histories were equivalent.

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

Though perhaps what has changed are the eyes that see it

Recuérdate, hijo —dice—, no hay clima malo, solo ropa mala.

Clouds like those," he'd show her, "are called cumulus congestus. Each one is riding along on a big column of slowly cooling air. Like a big invisible ice-cream cone. That small cloud there probably weighs five hundred thousand pounds." "Nooo," she'd say. "It's floating—it weighs nothing." Still, she would not look away.

what I really wanted to do was write a story that was all backstory, in which multiple protagonists, none of whom are exactly likable, wake up, tell lots of different stories inside the story, argue significant moral points, then wake up a second time and realize the whole thing was a dream.

Veja os obstáculos como oportunidades. Veja os obstáculos como inspirações.

How to render three dimensions in two, the world in planar spaces. It's the central challenge for every artist, Naima. Naima stepped back, reexamined her photo. Artist? she thought. An artist?

It's not your fault, he said. And I'm not defending her for what she did. But I believe any story that anybody tells me. You can't be to blame if you got faith in people.

We are all just tenants here. Even the one thing we believe is ours—the time we're given on earth—does that belong to us?

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move forward through it, like clouds across the sky?

but one of the dying's imperatives is to make the living see them. This is nobody's fault, but it is everybody's burden.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

Worse yet, adolescents will be sensitive to hurt puppies, to starving children in distant countries, to a friend with a problem. But not to us, their parents. They do take us totally for granted.