Quotes About Perspective

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Autobiography is the poor man's history.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.

What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

we each construct our own reality by interpreting the external world on the basis of our unique experiences with it and our beliefs about those experiences.

The world is not what it seems—but it isn't anything else, either.

One must see everything.

There are two sides to every story but only one truth.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

perpetual pain, or ecstasy, depending on one's point of view. Josie

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.

People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.