Quotes About Perspective

But" is a three-letter stroke of genius. It keeps things in perspective. It prevents me from turning too rigid and self-righteous. It reminds me that hardly anything in life is black or white.

nothing good will ever come from people who are more familiar with the dust of the library than with the light of the sun.

over the realities.

The rush of adrenaline I used to get when someone told me I could stay up past my bedtime has since been replaced with the wave of euphoria I feel whenever I realize I can go to sleep before 9:00 p.m.

these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on regular basis, and while he knew what he saw was real, he wasn't sure anyone would believe him if he tried to explain it.." pp21

Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

Istoriju pišu pobednici. Predanja ispreda puk. Književnici fantaziraju. Izvesna je samo smrt.

Even a stone would talk if you broke its teeth.

It is hard to lift up your own misfortune. To be at once the viewer and the viewed. To be both above and below. The one below is a spot, a shadow . . . To consider your own person in the light of eternity (read: in the light of death). To rise into the air. The world from a bird's-eye view.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

I learned that objects in our life are meaningless and unimportant. It is the spirit world that is important. Jewelry and fancy homes have no real value. We should judge ourselves through our good deeds.

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.

Remember: Writing is drawing.

bear in mind that interesting art doesn't come from trying to slavishly turn a photo into a drawing. Try to add as much as you can of your own to the image.

Making art will show you how much you already have. Your real treasures. A brand-new Maserati is a lot less beautiful to draw than a rusty old pickup.

Un disegno dieci minuti di pan tostato è un zilione di volte meglio di un disegno a zero minuto di pan tostato.

Change works only when people believe it is happening for them, not to them.