Quotes About Perspective

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

I hope I never git so land hungry and money crazy thet I have no time fer God, family, or friends.

People are more important than fussing over preparations. Why, I haven't even been good company for Wynn, I realized, looking back in humiliation over some of our last evenings spent together. Well, I would change that. After all, a marriage was of far more importance than a wedding.

Wynn laughed. "Well, there's a saying," he mused, "that a moose is a horse made by a committee." We chuckled together at Wynn's joke.

Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

reactive gratitude—an unconscious response that allows us to find redeeming value in the difficult event itself.

He talked in curlicues and long, winding metaphors. I started out as a partisan on Artie's side in his long and tortured relationship with Paul Simon. As the years passed, I got a far more nuanced education on that partnership. Artie remained a lifelong pal.

Alles ist Mist. Aber dann möchte man sich manchmal auf die Erde setzen und sich vor Freude ins Hemd weinen.

It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end.

Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched a pussycat playing with stars in a black room.

Yes, world history is indeed such an onion!

Those who study just one country end up understanding no country.

Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali)

Factual knowledge is not always sufficient by itself to motivate an adaptive behavior. At times a symbolic belief system that departs from factual reality fares better.

from our point of view, genital sores, diarrhea, and coughing are "symptoms of disease." From a germ's point of view, they're clever evolutionary strategies to broadcast the germ. That's why it's in the germ's interests to "make us sick." But why should a germ evolve the apparently self-defeating strategy of killing its host?

Dat wil zeggen dat de problemen van Montana voor het grootste deel niet eenvoudigweg kunnen worden toegeschreven aan zelfzuchtige booswichten die willens en wetens profiteren van hun buren. In plaats daarvan zijn het conflicten tusseen mensen die vanuit hun achtergrond en normen kiezen voor een manier van doen die verschilt van die waar mensen met een andere achtergrond en andere waarden voor kiezen.

its contribution depends on a new framework derived from personal crises, an explicitly comparative approach, and a perspective drawn from my own life experiences and those of my friends.

WEIRD: from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies.