Quotes About Perspective

Told from the man's point of view, Vertigo is awash with romantic fog, but from the woman's perspective, it's about being forced to disappear— not from the top of a tower, but in everyday life as two successive lovers make her into someone else for their own ends, a common enough tragedy.

Gonzalez adds, "Researchers point out that people tend to take any information as confirmation of their mental models. We are by nature optimists, if optimism means that we believe we see the world as it is. And under the influence of a plan, it's easy to see what we want to see.

There are people for whom there is only one sun in the sky or darkness, and there are those who live in a night filled with stars

A book without women is often said to be about humanity but a book with women in the foreground is a woman's book.

Fritz's first radical premise is that everyday life is already a disaster of sorts, one from which actual disaster liberates us.

We'd never set eyes on each other before. But that's the work that books do, reaching out further than their writers.

We are all the heroes of our own stories, and one of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather than be told by them.

It's important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence is all around us of tremendous suffering and tremendous destruction. The hope I'm interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act.

I understand that there is a writer named Jonathan Franzen, but I have not read him.

It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.

The great skill in lying is not lying, you'd say. Just leaving things out. Keeping everything as close to the actual truth as possible. Nothing overblown.

Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.

Say there is no truth. Say there are only scraps that we feebly try to sew togethr.

Life is short, but wide.

Those eagles, like angels, don't distinguish between work and play. To them, it is all one and the same.

Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass.

at that picture, you would think that no one died. You would think we were happy all the time: my mother, my baby, and

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. (pg. 174)

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

I will be­lieve that the bat­tle of fem­i­nism is over, and that the fe­male has reached a po­si­tion of equal­ity with the male, when I hear that a coun­try has al­lowed it­self to be turned up­side-down and led to the brink of war by its pas­sion for a to­tally bald woman writer.

My work expresses an infatuation with human beings. I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

That taught me a lesson I've always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.

Here was the authentic voice of the Slav. These people hold that the way to make life better is to add good things to it, whereas in the West we hold that the way to make life better is to take bad things away from it.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.