Quotes About Perspective

Art teaches art.

Every art form will lend you its eye and offer a new way to see.

Be in the World, Not of the World—Kind of like Lucky Charms cereal: there are lots of pretty marshmallows in with the cereal, but they're not the same. So live with the cereal, but remember: you're a pretty marshmallow.

Julia supposed that there was also a difference in perspective: 'The practical level was another level down [in 1960s social movements] and not so interesting. I don't know much about organizing, but I feel as though, if the reality of the situation doesn't change people's heads, then nothing's going to change their heads. Marches and those things are not the work of it. The work of it is whatever the work is.

Believable, chronological, but so quickly erased that it only serves to prove that the universe is made of curving, warping space.

What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?

I've thought about having a family. I just haven't seen any that really appeal to me.

Here is the worst possible way for you to try to figure out if your idea solves somebody's problem: Ask them. The vast majority of entrepreneurs seem to think that explaining their concept in detail to a few people and then asking whether it's a good idea constitutes validation. It does not.

When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay. When they say it was okay, I know it was bad.

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward?

It was a little thing, she knew, but life was all sorts of little things added up.

the greatest unhappiness a person can feel in life is unmet expectations.

Life is like a picture, you know. It's all in the way you frame it.

I never understood until this happened to me was that if one's always going to new places, one never stops long enough to see the beauty in the old places.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings, limited to one square in any direction, on defense for the whole fucking game.

Sandy tried to never lose sight of the fact that we tend to order things according to the reality we know, as we discover it. All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't know dick about what it's like to be a homicide cop in Baltimore.

Is there anything sadder than losers telling themselves that they're fortunate?

sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in