Quotes About Perspective

A note on averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms was nearly $1 billion.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

America from the late 1960s on, equality came to mean not just that the law should treat everyone identically but that your beliefs about anything are equally as true as anyone else's.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably.

yeah, you can't buy happiness

In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality. p.403

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Inspiration,' the false artist says, 'it just comes to me.' And it shows. His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.

we live 24 minutes too late and that is viewed from the right side

Wer die Enge seiner Heimat begreifen will, der reise. Wer die Enge seiner Zeit ermessen will, studiere Geschichte.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

All this happened, more or less.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand

You know—we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God—" I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade."

Los pesimistas ven dificultades en cada oportunidad; los optimistas ven oportunidades en cada dificultad".

Because it turns out forever is like the mall—right around the corner.

I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.