Quotes About Perspective

I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.

Occasionally when I look at my Instagram and see how many followers I have, it shows me how it's going up by the minute. It blows my mind, but everyone around me keeps me grounded.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.

It would be hard to know what gigantic proportion of human life is spent in this same ratio of years under water on legs to one premature, exhausted moment on wings.

It was a beautiful stretch of water, either to a fisherman or a photographer, although each would have focused his equipment on a different point. It was a barely submerged waterfall. The reef of rock was about two feet under the water, so the whole river rose into one wave, shook itself into spray, then fell back on itself and turned blue. After it recovered from the shock, it came back to see how it had fallen.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.

The mark of a truly stupid man," he announced to Klara, "is that he takes his own occupation so seriously that he comes to believe it is superior to others.

None of us here have spent more than 90 percent of our adult life in the cages where the animals are.

It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Attitudes are more important than facts.