Quotes About Perspective

Your world and the cat's world are not the same.

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

From time to time we complain about all kinds of things about other people, and we feel that we are being deceived. My father told us that these others are not living outside ourselves.

Good and evil are indeed not two.

The sages say happiness and sorrow are one. Is this because in finding the first, we also find the second?

What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.

Crisis changes people," Genji said, filling Heiko's cup in turn. "If they are fortunate, crisis shows them what truly matters.

There is no light for those who do not know darkness.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

Ce lui qui nage au milieu des flots ne se rend pas compte de l'immensité de la mer

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

happiness, not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth" and so it goes away. —Robert M. Pirsig

When you have a group of people who've had a different professional training, a different professional experience, they not only have a different knowledge base, but they have a different perspective on everything.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Cocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.

Whatever you do, know that you always have choices about what to do with thoughts—including the ones that belong to someone else. In

How much do I really believe that will happen? • What do I think is the most likely thing to happen? • What is the most unlikely thing to occur? • What could I do if that happened? Tell yourself: • Ideas can sound frightening, but that doesn't make them true.

Yet they are also worlds of dynamism—flowing, surging, holding back—a world of almost constant movement. Here, it is as if God were saying, "I have created opposites, upper and lower, black and white, left and right. Now bring them together. Live in the lower world from the higher perspective of the world of unity.

Kabbalah thus enables us to see the depth dimension in all aspects of life, from family relations to politics and technology.

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.