Quotes About Perspective

As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world.

To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

To the question, "Why am I old?" the usual answer is, "Because I am becoming dead." But the facts show that I reveal more character as I age, not more death.

The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous

Some days I want to put my head in the sand. There's too much pain out there, there's too much that scares me. But I wouldn't be able to breathe with my head in the sand, and I wouldn't be able to hear or see or smell. The world is a lovely place...despite the sadness it holds for each of us, despite the terrible things we do.

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

It must be admitted that when I turn around while driving our car and reply to my wife's protests that I can perfectly well see where I am going without having to look where I am going because the focus of outflow is implicit, she is not reassured.

When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,

Nothing is True, All is Permitted

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to becoming partly a dog.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

An experience is something that is constructed in the mind of the perceiver. It's not something an organization owns. To map experiences, investigation into those experiences from the perspective of the individual is necessary.

Empathy is about seeing the world through someone else's eyes. It's about an implicit sense of what an experience is like, what people value, and what emotions are involved

In a broader sense, visualizations inform strategy. They are a key way of seeing the market from the customer's perspective. Mapping experiences isn't a nice-to-have design tool; it's a must-have for strategic alignment.

You don't compete against products and services in your category: you compete against anything that gets the job done from the user's point of view.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense

Bear in mind," he once wrote a correspondent, "that all Histories from the Rock of Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.