Quotes About Perspective

The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.

If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...

Those who are comfortably established in life tend to have no need to ask what it means.

Al-Tabari understood that human truth is always flawed—that realities are multiple and that everyone has some degree of bias. The closest one might come to objectivity would be in the aggregate, which is why he so often concludes a disputed episode with that time-honored phrase "Only God knows for sure.

If somebody tells us it's rubbish, then our attitude is that the person's misguided, rather than that we are rubbish.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

It only increased Margaret's dislike of her name when young Elizabeth, whom the family called Lilibet, insisted on referring to her baby sister as "Bud". "She's not a real rose yet, is she? She's only a bud." Elizabeth, who was four years Margaret's senior, pertly told Lady Cynthia Asquith.

The track at that time was not laid out with much regard for the audience. Superimposed on the existing runways of Oakes Field, the former airport of Nassau, and making the most possible use of the already paved surfaces, it meandered off into backwaters previously known only to aviators, with little regard for the perspective of the cash customers.

That, he said, was the way he stayed young—by refusing to take anything quite as seriously as he should have done.

But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.

Yes, I know, I'm only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to. I was considered a scrawny guy in the gym. [...] Yet sometimes when I stood in front of my own mirror at home, I saw a powerful me. I couldn't hold onto the image, though. It slipped like a globule of mercury from under my index finger.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

It's funny to be a critic.

Do you have to overthink everything! Can't you just enjoy life for once!

He had been thinking about how easy it was to stay alive now that he didn't care about being alive anymore.

at that time she had not yet seen that the horizon was an illusion and

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Lucy Stone wasn't usually a clock watcher. Time didn't pass slowly for her; it galloped ahead of her.

Don't ever let one moment take anything away from another.

The edges of my world are sharp, and they cut.

Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility.

There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?