Quotes About Perspective

Thus, it doesn't take many people to anchor a new way of thinking or believing

the bridge of experience

The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

different intentions produced different effects

In our beliefs about who we are, what we have and don't have, and what should and shouldn't be, we breathe life into our greatest joys as well as our darkest moments.

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained … all existing things are … imaginary.

Keep your eye off the ball. Ninety percent of what's important happens away from the focus of attention.

Okay, and I would suggest to you that understanding problems is just like shooting a picture of a child. You see the challenge better when you shift the angle, when you reframe it.

Allander smiled. "Well, if he doesn't tell me nothing then he would, in fact, be telling me something. A double negative makes a positive. Your advice isn't concordant with your desires.

She had spoken, her words coming in fragments as her voice faded in and out of hoarseness. "You know," she'd said softly to the throng of listeners, "we're more than this." She'd swung an open hand around to indicate the throng of listeners, the bright lights, the police cars. "We're more than just this.

I've never been out four days. You've never been dead before.

Trying to convince himself that as a four-year-old boy he might have been something worth keeping.

She later said that she had only told the police "like ten percent of the bad stuff." Investigators, however, understood that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare.

Whether the glass is half empty or half full depends on if you're drinking from it or filling it." Milt Carp in Dollarapalooza

Every dollar has a story to tell," Vonn Carp in Dollarapalooza.

I should have lived a different story, or lived the same story differently. I should have better told you, should have said: I have seen you, seen you and loved you because of what I have seen.

Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Double description is better than one.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Number is different from quantity.

All experience is subjective.