Quotes About Perspective

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. A book that is good for me would very likely be punk for you.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small—like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

It's funny how we hate to face realities. I knew a commuter once who rode in town every day on the 8.13. But he used to call it the 7.73. He said it made him feel more virtuous.

You sell a man a book, you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Non esiste in astratto un buon libro: un libro è buono soltanto quando appaga una fame umana, o confuta qualche umano errore.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small--like looking at the Big Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

Tú no buscas la verdad. Tú fabricas tu propia verdad. - Memento

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar's paradise

Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.

Being able to conceive moral contexts from multiple sides and being able to more deeply understand each person involved are major achievements in moral development.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

Whatever else you may think, this place is not the centre of the universe." "It is," he said. "Because if we ever stopped believing that, we would all die.

The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.