Quotes About Perspective

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STORIES ARE JUST DATA WITH A SOUL

I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living. —SIR RICHARD BRANSON

Are you the same person today—as a college sophomore—as you were in the third grade?" he asked the student. "No, of course not," she replied. "Then something happened to you that made you grow, that forced you to look at the world differently. That event is your momentous occasion.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…

You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.

If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Comedy = tragedy + time.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Carol, if you could be a member of the opposite sex for twenty-four hours, and then pop back and be yourself again, who would you be and what would you do?" My mind started racing like mad. Opposite sex? For twenty-four hours? Who would I be? What would I do? I said a quick little prayer. Please, let me just open my mouth and have whatever comes out make sense. I took a deep breath and what came out was this: "I'd be Osama bin Laden, and I'd kill myself.

Recognize your wealth but realize your measurement

Mindset change is not about picking up a few pointers here and there. It's about seeing things in a new way. When people...change to a growth mindset, they change from a judge-and-be-judged framework to a learn-and-help-learn framework. Their commitment is to growth, and growth take plenty of time, effort, and mutual support.

the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life

There are a lot of good-looking men out there. But keep in mind that no matter how cute and sexy a guy is, there's always some woman somewhere who is sick of him.

Vegetarianism announces that it will destroy the pleasure of meals as they are now experienced. Thus it is a given that vegetarians will be unable to determine the shape of the discourse when eating with meat eaters.

Vegetarians, despite the variety of ways in which to argue their perspective, always appear to be saying "Don't eat meat." Meat eaters cannot make sense of this because a part of their definition of what makes sense is eating meat.

When your life flashes before you, do you think that includes every trip you made to the bank?

I'm old with living. So much older than almost thirteen.

I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old. "Think of it," I said to Laura when I turned twelve. "I'm almost Mother Sarah's age when she was married." Laura looked at me, her squinty eyes even more narrowed. "You could have your own old man as a husband," she said. "Shut up," I had said. And she had laughed.