Quotes About Perspective

Don't try to be a good guy. It doesn't matter who owes who. From the instant they enter into a war both sides are evil.

Quit worrying! Final exams don't hold a lot of meaning in one's life. Well said! That's our Ichigo! Let's share the pain of being morons!!!

Listen! A battle isn't just about winning!! What do you people think a captain's robe is?" "A nuisance." "Cheap." "Fashion?

You probably don't think I'm the ideal child. But the fact you people think that means there's a possibility that I don't think of you as ideal parents either. Adult don't realize that because they don't consider children to be equal human beings.

Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us, certain things do not.

I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.

Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.

I had no right to see them this way.

That room—once you enter it, you never really leave. You can forget you're there, you can go on as if you hold the reins, that the course of your life, yea even its length, will reflect the force of your character and the wisdom of your judgments. And then you hit an icy patch on a turn one sunny March day and the wheel in your hands becomes a joke and you no more than a spectator to your own dreamy slide toward the verge, and then you remember where you are.

Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf of our own interest. It allows us to see another power operating beneath the apparent predominance of self-interest. Of course, the commonsensical understanding of psychoanalysis is exactly the opposite of this, contending that psychoanalysis reduces everything to self-interest.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.

It is the devious writer indeed who writes in such a way that the critic who finds himself unresponsive to the writer's vision feels like a philistine.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

What we think we lack determines what we will become in life.

A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

after you stop believing in santa claus, the whole world just goes downhill

how could a man lead without vision?

You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

There was reality, and then there was perception, and rarely the two shall meet.