Quotes About Perspective

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

reality, the name we give to the common experience.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Relaxing in the commonplace Asian insanity, the world became mine.

You don't understand the things I do, but I do have my reasons. They're not your reasons, so they're not real to you, but they're real to me, and that's enough.

Beauty may reside in the eye of the beholder, but what we see is determined by what we expect to see.

What is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance," writes the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "rather than the quality of experience." But what if we don't want to become virtuoso musicians or renowned artists? What if we only want to dabble in these things, to see if they might subtly change our outlook on the world or even, as we try to learn them, change us? What if we just want to enjoy them?

We all want to be individuals on the road, but smooth-flowing traffic requires conformity. We want all the lights to be green, unless we are on the intersecting road, in which case we want those lights to be green. We want little traffic on our own street but a convenient ten-lane highway blazing just nearby. We all wish the other person would not drive, so that our trip would be faster. What's best for us on the road is often not best for everyone else, and vice versa.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

Q: What's hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own...

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train...

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Everything you can think of is true.

There is no such thing as nonfiction.

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.

All things in Life are of equal importance. Only their suspense dates differentiate one from another.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy , but how much you enjoy what you have. Tom Wilson