Quotes About Perspective

Artists are here to disturb the peace...

And the education I can receive from an afternoon with Picasso, or from taking one of my nieces or nephews to the movies, is not at all what the state has in mind when it speaks of Education.

I'm not really interested in being what Americans call 'happy'.

And she began rather to envy the stocky girl with the crush on Frank Sinatra, since she would settle one day, obviously, for a great deal less, and probably turn out children as Detroit turned out cars and never sigh for an instant for what she had missed, having indeed never, and especially with a lifetime of moviegoing behind her, missed anything.

All men, clearly, are primitive, but it can be doubted that that all men are primitive in the same way

Painters have often taught writers how to see.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." ? James Baldwin, interview, 1963.

Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

When you consider that presidents and chief-justices and archbishops and kings and statesmen are human beings like you and me and the laundryman, the thought becomes too horrible for humanity to face.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

One of the most important steps you can take in building a visionary company is not an action, but a shift in perspective.

Put objective, honest outsiders on your board of directors.

Accomplishing a 20 Mile March, consistently, in good times and bad, builds confidence. Tangible achievement in the face of adversity reinforces the 10X perspective: we are ultimately responsible for improving performance. We never blame circumstance; we never blame the environment.

We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet—and this is the key point—Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing's case, the risks do not always come without pain.

people worried more about the leader—what he would say, what he would think, what he would do— than they worried about external reality and what it could

I... had no need for cheering dreams," he wrote. "Facts are better than dreams.

And just as Le Corbusier and Lenin shared a broadly comparable high modernism, so Jane Jacobs's perspective was shared by Rosa Luxemburg and Aleksandra Kollontay, who opposed Lenin's politics. Jacobs doubted both the possibility and the desirability of the centrally planned city, and Luxemburg and Kollontay doubted the possibility and desirability of a revolution planned from above by the vanguard party.

Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.

Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

There is no such thing as history undistorted. Decisive transformations of meaning occurred, and are occurring still.

Before we get too wrapped around the axle