Quotes About Perspective

Thomas Kuhn, who once said that he came to realize that he did not understand a thinker until he could see the world through that thinker's eyes.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

His answer caught me by surprise. I'd never realized there was an age limit for spankings. This was the best news I'd heard in a long time.

If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.

I'm sitting on the back deck, gazing up at the moonless night sky. The Milky Way is a hazy diagonal across the star-glittery blackness. In the immensely vast universe, we are a tiniest speck. In the billions of years of history, we are the merest infinitesimal instant. Yet we persist in believing that what we do can be important.

Dragostea... Nu-mi place cuvântul ?sta, tocmai fiindc? are pentru mine o însemn?tate prea mare, neîinchipuit mai mare decît ai putea în?elege dumneata.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Do you believe you're an outgrowth of a living sphere? A huge mass rocketing through space faster than a bullet shot out of a gun around another ball of fire? You may know it, but you don't feel it. If you did—and I mean deep in your bones—it would profoundly change the way you live your life.

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

Education is not a destination, but a journey that requires an open mind, a curious spirit, and a willingness to explore new ideas and perspectives.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

Invariably, identical facts provoke starkly different interpretations.

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

But of greater concern is the fact that psychologists tend to give progressively less attention to a motive which pervades our entire lives. Psychologists

Burns points out that the basic idea of cognitive therapy—that our thoughts affect our emotions and mood, not the other way around—goes back a long way: The ancient philosopher Epictetus rested his career on the idea that it is not events that determine your state of mind, but how you decide to feel about the events. This

Me la he pasado oyendo es ese tal polvo -, dijo Judy. - ¿Me podrían decir qué es? - Es una sensación especial respecto a este lugar -, respondió Marvin. - Las personas lavan platos y sirven comidas exactamente igual que lo harían en otro lugar, trabajan en tiendas y barren calles del mismo modo que lo hacen en ciudades de todo el mundo. Pero el compromiso es diferente.

I too often took golf's capriciousness as its most maddening vice, but if I adjusted my stance and looked from another angle, its fickleness was the game's greatest gift.

It's not so much that I am a cynic, I just might take a bit too much pleasure in demonstrating why things aren't as rosy as they seem.

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

Perception and reality are two different things.