Quotes About Perspective

The value of experience is rising.

We are particularly susceptible to bias when we are hurting or desperate. An

This is the curse of the postscarcity world: We can connect to only a thin thread of all there is. Each

Re-visioning the ordinary is what art, literature, and comedy do.You can elevate mundane details into magical wonders simply by noticing them.

See that old person taking forever in line? That is the future you. Have patience.

Unhappiness comes from wanting what others have. Happiness is wanting what you already have.

When you are anxious because of your to-do list take comfort in your have-done list.

if Earth is reduced to the size of a bacteria, and inspected under high-powered optics, would it seem stranger than a virus?

5 Tips to Keep Your Sails out of Your Teenager's Wind Don't take things personally. Stay calm. Listen, but don't fight your teenager's battles. Offer helpful suggestions only when asked. Don't tell your teenager what to do.

Memories are also tainted by lies.

That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

There are all sorts of lies you tell yourself over and over until you accept them as readily as you do your own skin. And it isn't always easy to recognize them as lies.

Yes, some people are so impoverished all they have is money.

Almost always, the work an author thinks is their worst turns out to be quite good. Sometimes it's even considered their best stuff.

I hated the Naga, you know." Garul nodded. "I once hated humans, too. Then I learned to understand them instead." That made sense to Owen. "It's hard to hate what you understand.

your money fits in one hand, mine fits in two

stated, "What you consume is what you will consider." According to this logic, if one wants to be whole, healthy, and productive, one should seek out and digest information that encourages such attributes.

Tragedy, Lazaar told her, is the story in which the liar is lying to himself; in comedy, the liar is lying to everyone else.

Others, however, perhaps overwhelmed by what they read, say Africa should be written off, that it's beyond repair. My experiences so far say we should put it in perspective. For instance, a new nation that has just won its independence from a colonial power struggles with internal graft and corruption, civil war and economic turbulence—more developed nations see it as a basket-case. Yet 200+ years later it emerges as the world's sole superpower. Yes, America.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

When your attitude is right, the facts don't matter, because what you think are facts are mostly opinions.

It already felt a lifetime ago, prison years being like dog years.