Quotes About Perspective

What I'm suggesting then is that much of our response to novels may have to do with the kind of "system" or "conversation" we grew up in and within which we had to find a position and establish an identity.

The fact is, as soon as you start with words you're locked into a debate, forced to take a position with respect to others, confirming or rebutting what has been said before.

And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, 'So you've come to demonstrate that it was all, after all, autobiographical.

the story, and the conviction it carries, are part of the teller's way of organizing his own life.

The purpose of reading is not to pass some final judgement on the text, but to engage with what it has to offer to me now.

A kid just couldn't see the difference. It was like being color-blind or something, or preferring Frazetta to all those blobby old paintings of haystacks and French people in rowboats.

Sure, movies can be a way to hide from life, but shit, sometimes you NEED to hide from life, to see a better life on the screen, to know life can be better than it is, or to see a worse life and realize how good you have it. Movies taught me not to settle for less.

Drake always thinks the glass is half full. Me, I think the glass is half full of poison.

There's no use arguing with someone's subjective experience,

He would argue that every world and every life was insignificant when considered against the span of the infinite… but nothing mattered against the span of the infinite, so if you wanted to care about anything at all, you had to care about the small things.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

Talk never goes up in price, it's always free, and you usually get what you pay for.

Don't tell me the glass is half-full or half-empty; you either have something in that glass or you don't.

We never saw obstacles or problems, we only saw situations in need of solutions.

Be open to the advice that goes against what you want .

I am on a path of understanding more and more about myself every day and shifting my perspective just like my father did. I'm becoming more conscious about what I'm ignoring or denying, and my learning process has become faster, my struggles fewer and less intense.

A Cleaner thinks, If I'm feeling nervous, how the fuck are they feeling? They have to deal with me.

Glance at negatives, but focus on positives.

Not only does language reflect a person's thinking, but it also reinforces a person's thinking.

Almost any negative thought pattern can be broken with thoughts of gratitude. When you "think thanks," you dial into what you have instead of what you lack. The effect is immediate—you feel positive.

never let our expectations define our level of thankfulness.

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "The leader's role is to describe reality, and give hope."30

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.