Quotes About Perspective

Humour is the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life.

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

I have been too fond of stories.

We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.

It was the tiniest scrap of misinformation, insignificant really. But. . . . That was not the story at all.

She wanted to say in a voice thick and passionate, "you're so wrong", but what was the point of saying that when they didn't realize their rules were only that, their rules, and not some absolute, pre-existing creed that was their mission to interpret and protect?

Compare Facebook posts to Gutenberg's Bible, and civilization seems to be going down the drain. But compare tweets to indulgences, and it's much of a muchness.

If he'd lived I might have married him and had a passel of brats and a dog. Who wants that happy ending?" "A lot of people." "It's bullshit." "Yes," she said. "I know.

Some people see their spouses as separate from them,' Megan says. 'And some people see their spouses as an extension of them, and that informs their attitude and behavior.

And of course, if there's one thing we feel we can take as truth in these books it's Katniss and her narrative. But we should ask ourselves whether even this should be above suspicion. Like all first-person narrators, Katniss is her own editor with her own biases: she chooses how to present herself and those around her. Katniss has a stake in the story she's telling and what that stake is changes how she portrays the events and her emotional reaction to them.

Por eso es imprescindible comprender a fondo las culturas del mundo. —Y añadió—: He aprendido no solo a valorar esto, sino también a apreciarlo. Lo que hace del mundo un lugar interesante son nuestras diferencias, no nuestras similitudes566.»

how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense.

A big definition of who you are as a designer, it's the way you look at the world

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.

I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.