Quotes About Perspective

The little boy in him was crestfallen that he wasn't going on the adventure. Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.

Your ability to have empathy with the Geometer—to imagine what it would be like to be someone else—isn't a mere courtesy. It is an innate process of consciousness.

No one thought about the big picture for a few thousand years. We were all scrambling to survive.

You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them

Until he reached thirty, Randy felt bad about the fact that he was not socially deft. Now he doesn't give a damn. Pretty soon he'll probably start being proud of it.

He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to make some kind of statement.

Reality is what we make it. Or what is made for us by the companies we keep. It is our clay from which we fashion ourselves.

At this point, Mrs. Disher stepped in to say, if you thought that was scary, look at how poor people lived in the late twentieth century. Indeed, after ractives told them about the life of an inner-city Washington, D.C., child during the 1990s, most students had to agree they'd take a workhouse in pre-Victorian England over that any day.

Well, once I had recovered from childbirth - then she caught herself short, and smiled. What a ridiculous expression; I see now that I shall be recovering until the day I die.

As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets.

His real job—the job that the Owners paid him for—was to be an observer of the human condition as it was so richly displayed from day to day within these walls.

think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.

Yur heaved a sigh, then continued in a more moderate tone: "Never mind. I see it now. It's some kind of Purpose thing. Above my pay grade. You should have just told me." He drew himself up and saluted. "What are my orders, sir?

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

A long fall. Dinah had ceased to even think in terms of up and down. The concept of falling had become meaningless to her.

The situation could not possibly be as dire as it seemed or they would all be dead.

Today I: smoke/am overweight/have a shitty attitude/am depressed because: my mom died of cancer/my uncle put his thumb up my butt/my dad hit me with a razor strop" seems kind of overly deterministic to Randy; it seems to reflect a kind of lazy or half-witted surrender to bald teleology.

the usual academician's ace in the hole: everything is relative, it's all just differing perspectives.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

Reptiles are just retarded birds," said the King of the Birds, "and so I am your King, thank you very much.

You spend too much time goggled in," she says. "Try a little Reality, man.

In any soul, the Condemned Man argued, was the ability to create a whole world, as big and variegated as the one that he and the Magistrate lived in. But if this was true of the Innocent, it was true of the Condemned Man as well, and so he should not—no one should ever—be put to death.

The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland.