Quotes About Perspective

Lo único que puede ser peor que no ver el bosque por culpa de los árboles es no ver los árboles por culpa del bosque. ANÓNIMO

David Baldacci

You can't live someone else's life for them. Hell, it's hard enough living your own.

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Life is what it is, Alex. You just have to accept it, because you have no other choice.

Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.

You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand.

It goes by so fast. But when your kids are little and the days seem like they are forty-eight hours long, you just can't see that. And everyone with grown kids tells you they grow up in the blink of an eye and will be out of college and on with their lives before you know it. And young parents listen but never really believe it.' She paused. 'Until it happens to them.

Being alive and living were also two distinct things

Damn it, why couldn't I have a photographic memory! Thank God you don't, Caleb exclaimed in a disgusted tone. What makes you say that? Reuben demanded hotly. Because then she'd be calling you Ruby, and I'd have to be sick to my stomach.

Money's not everything." "It is if you never had much of it.

Once the emotions are gone, analytics are all you have left.

The only thing potentially worse than not being able to see the forest for the trees is not being able to see the trees because of the forest. —Anonymous

That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.

don't know. I've found that people in power can be incredibly insulated and therefore unrealistic about what they can accomplish.

The difference between what I think matters and what you think does could likely fill a bookcase.

Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.

Arguments follow from assumptions, and assumptions follow from beliefs, and very rarely—perhaps never—do beliefs reflect an agenda determined entirely by the facts.

You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two

There were no new ways to understand the world, only new days to set our understanding against.

I passed out on the fourteenth floor. The CPR was so erotic.

You may not even have known that you had an assumption. It was only because he came up with the opposite one that you find out that you have one. You may uncover other assumptions, but we are all suspending them and looking at them all, seeing what they mean.

What is called for is not an integration of thought, or a kind of imposed unity, for any such imposed point of view would itself be merely another fragment. Rather, all our different ways of thinking are to be considered as different ways of looking at the one reality, each with some domain in which it is clear and adequate.

a proper world view, appropriate for its time, is generally one of the basic factors that is essential for harmony in the individual and in society as a whole.