Quotes About Perspective

The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to feel all warm inside about that?

Give others the benefit of the doubt and remember that people are doing the best they can with the resources that they have.

One hundred years ago my great-grandfather thought women shouldn't vote. He was absolutely certain about that, and I'm absolute certain he was wrong. Two hundred years ago my great-great-great=great grandfather believed that white men should own black men. He was absolutely certain about that, and I am certain that he was wrong. I'm humble because I don't know what I'm wrong about today. I'll speak with confidence and I'll speak with passion, but I won't speak with certainty.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.

You do not live in America. No such place exists.

It's something you learn after your second theme party: It's all been done before.

all good things come to an end, and sometimes that's the way you know if they were good to begin with.

The story of me is always about what will be, never what is. It is the search for a treasure within life, never seeing that life is the treasure.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Dont feel too bad, Harry. People break-up everyday, its not the end of the world..

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

The paradox is that when you can get into right versus wrong bickering in personal relationships -- even if you believe you have won -- you have lost.

What's the alternative to being right? Maybe it is being well. Not trying to control others, but practicing self-control and self-containment.

It's not possible to move from one activity to the next at blinding speed and be reflective at the same time. The more complex and demanding the work we do, the wider, deeper and longer the perspective we require to do it well. It's almost impossible to do that when we create no white space in our lives.

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

Traveling can be boringly slow sometimes, even if you are effectively traveling at speeds faster than light.

I get it," Merlin leaned forward. "The magician simply redirects attention to one of these other fifty-five thousand realities, thereby distracting others from the reality they're manipulating

As it turns out, the final frontier of freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude, and in the face of one's own mortality, the only conceivable choice is joy.

Human consciousness is a big game of make-believe. It's nothing more than mutually fanciful speculation, and the self, consequently, is nothing more than a ridiculous illusion at best and a destructive delusion at worst. We can't know each other's perspective, we only pretend we can. That's why people walk around so terrified of each other most of the time.

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No le interesa hablar con los humanos, porque las conversaciones que mantiene con los extraterrestres son mucho más interesantes e instructivas.

Los espejos, como muchas personas, tienen respuestas distintas para las mismas preguntas, según los casos. [...] Ella era la misma, pero el espejo no. Y era éste quien le hablaba, como si dijera: " Estás muy mejorada desde la última vez que te vi.