Quotes About Perspective

Punching goblins, replied Sprockett soothingly, while offering short-term relief, has no long-term beneficial value

Las premoniciones se cumplen porque la gente quiere que se cumplan. Un observador siempre cambia el resultadi de un acontecimiento; millines de observadores, como en este caso, lo garantizan.

That's insane.' 'If you look around, you won't find much that isn't.

Children are such consummate liars

I've always been suspicious of game changers,' she added. 'Sometimes the game doesn't need changing – or no one has a clear idea of which game will be changed, and for what and how much.

All your life you think the half century is death's adolescence, but actually it's really not that bad, as long as you can remember where you left your glasses.

Wales: not ALWAYS raining

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

I tried to think of a reasonable opening line, as I had several things to say that could be described as witty OR intelligent, but not both. Quite WHY I needed to talk to her I had no idea.

Jasper Fforde

No, but by that reasoning,' she said slowly, 'anyone who I've never met in the flesh might actually be me.

I'm sorry," I said. "It's been a tough day, and my nerves are in shreds. I need to get home and have a long, hot bath and then a martini." Thursday5 thought for a moment. "After you've drunk the long, hot bath," she observed, "you'll never have room for the martini.

fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.

Que la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

Porque uno nunca encuentra lo que busca, sino lo que la realidad le entrega

Creí que le importaba mucho la verdad. - Y me importa, pero una virtud llevada al extremo es un vicio. Si uno no entiende que hay cosas más importantes que la verdad no entiende lo importante que es la verdad.

los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;

quizá porque en aquel momento tuve por primera vez la intuición falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible

Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Yet I had invested nothing up front. It was just a matter of recognizing that one person's distress is another person's opportunity.   When

Writer and researcher of group dynamics Christina Baldwin once said, "Words are how we think, story is how we link.

visitors to your site still want to read about themselves more than about you.

You don't have to give away free things in order to be generous. You can prove your generosity by your ability to listen and see things from your customer's point of view. You can prove it by your willingness to share information, by the inside tips you give to your customers.