Quotes About Perspective

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me."