Quotes About Perspective

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense. (p.72)

As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know :" Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals

Stories should put knowledge into a frame work that is more lifelike.

Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.

Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind.

To get someone's attention break a pattern of thinking.

What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job there's always, always, always another.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Envision what the path would be if the best answer lay inside the imagination of the customer.

Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth?

But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.

don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.

Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the reason for their power?

Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being.

This is what Kaikeyi failed to see: it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?

When one has to leave behind almost everything, it hardly matters what one takes.