Quotes About Perspective

2. El 10 por ciento de la gente encontrará una manera de tomárselo todo como algo personal. Cuenta con ello y trátalo desde una perspectiva matemática.

Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."—George S. Patton

Relative Income Is More Important Than Absolute Income.

No somos un objeto, somos un proceso» «Queremos juzgar las cosas como buenas o malas… De modo que tenemos la idea de que una inflamación es mala,

If you don't appreciate what you have now, you'll never appreciate what you get later.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."—Oscar Wilde

Reality is negotiable.

When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing.

Siempre es difícil responder a eso, porque lleva implícita la pregunta de por qué no lo he hecho ya. Pero diría que cuando miro hacia mi yo más joven del pasado, era increíblemente convencional, increíblemente competitivo. Y, cuando eres muy competitivo, te vuelves muy bueno en aquello en lo que compites contra otras personas. Pero lo haces a cambio de perderte muchas otras cosas. »Si eres un jugador de ajedrez

instead they give me a new approach to thinking about the question so that I can solve it better on my own. Most "bad" recommendations

Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first." —Kurt Vonnegut "Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." —W.H. Auden

Dime algo que sea verdad y con lo que muy poca gente esté de acuerdo".»

Dime algo en lo que tú creas y otras personas encuentran demencial».

When you complain, nobody wants to help you,' and it's the simplest thing and so plainly spoken. Only he could really say that brutal, honest truth, but it's true, right? If you spend your time focusing on the things that are wrong, and that's what you express and project to people you know, you don't become a source of growth for people, you become a source of destruction for people. That draws more destructiveness.

What is the opposite of happiness? Sadness? No.

If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want.

When we feel pain in one time zone—meaning past, present, or future—we just switch to another time zone rather than change, because change brings so much uncertainty and so much instability and so much fear to people.

We're wired completely opposite in that sense. Basically, he's betting against change. We're betting for change. When he makes a mistake, it's because something changes that he didn't expect. When we make a mistake, it's because something doesn't change that we thought would. We could not be more different in that way. But

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."—Henry David Thoreau

So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.

Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.