Quotes About Perspective

It's a type of frame control," Tyler Durden replied. A frame is an NLP term: It is the perspective through which one sees the world. Whoever's frame—or subjective reality—is the strongest tends to dominate an interaction. "Style has all these really subtle ways of keeping control of the frame and getting people to qualify themselves to him. He makes sure that the focus is always on him. I'm writing a post about it." "That's

But the truth is that the fantasy is often better than the reality. I had just learned that lesson. Most men eventually learn that lesson. Mystery may have thought he wanted to live with two girls who love each other as much as they love him, but chances are they'd get on his nerves, team up against him, and eventually make him just as miserable as he'd been with Katya.

We must take into account all reality and strive for a balanced answer to our problems.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is (Proverbs 23:7). T

What do we get out of entering other people's suffering in art, when we often avoid it in life?

Mrs. Rahman. It was impossible to know whether Mokta

If her father was Thunder, then George was Smoke - and how could you argue with someone who began to disappear as soon as you opened your mouth?

We complain and complain in the villages, and then take us out and it's all we can talk about. Aren't people that way everywhere: Amina said. I mean, when they lose something?

nice day, i said. and i put one of the raspberries in my mouth. is it? i looked up at the sky. the sun is there, i said, only it's hid by a cloud. you ever see the bad in life? he asked. i'll have time to think about that, i said, when i'm dead.

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that she truly desired him to be so.

No, certainly he didn't. Not actually. He couldn't, not very well, since he didn't know. But he would have. It amounts to the same thing. And I'm sure it was just as unpleasant.

You knew what his opinion of you was, while he -- Well, 'twas ever thus. We know, always have. They don't. Not quite. It has, you will admit, its humorous side, and sometimes, its conveniences.

The spot where Helga Crane sat was a small oasis in a desert of darkness.

This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.

had to tell Jimmy to lighten up

Don't buy anything. My philosophy is, if it flies, floats, or fucks, rent it.

Cops say that FBI means "fabulously boring individuals

Never ask a man if he wants a bulletproof vest or a pair of mittens. Just make him put it on.

It's getting harder to tell the difference between art and vandalism.

But a man can't swim in the same river twice, because it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

My own face-offs with death had made me see death differently. Death had become not a possibility, but a probability, so I made peace with that dark horseman, and that peace has stayed with me on my borrowed time.

one of Jack's informative T-shirts: "Join The Army, See The World, Meet New People And Kill Them.

the past was so strong, it obscured the present.

You know what an idealist is? That's a man who notices that a rose smells better than a cabbage, so he thinks the rose will make a better soup.