Quotes About Perspective

Y cómo se supone que uno puede ser «comprensivo» antes de comprender?

Se parece a mucha gente que siempre ha estado mal de dinero. Piensan que hay dos clases de personas, la gente como ellos y luego los demás, que son increíblemente ricos. Un poco de dinero es lo mismo que una cantidad infinita de dinero.

It wasn't that eating was so great--it wasn't--but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything that was decidedly less than okay.

It's not your job to be *pre-disappointed* for him, dig? You...go on and on about how big and terrible 'the world' is. Well, maybe so. But in that case, it's the world's job to be big and terrible, not yours.

Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat

Había sido incapaz de discernir si ese frenético ajetreo era lo que afirmaba ser, una ferviente determinación a vivir a tope cada uno de los días que le quedaban, o todo lo contrario, una evasión.

No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.

Mucho de lo que sacaba de Internet era sospechoso, pues la red era como la Biblia: se podía encontrar documentación para apoyar con firmeza cualquier postura si uno navegaba el tiempo suficiente.

Por eso no tenía paciencia para con la descabellada distinción entre arte y artesanía que ponía a esta última en situación de desventaja desde un punto de vista comercial. Una jarra de barro para agua no valía prácticamente nada, pero si tenía un agujero en el fondo y era «arte», se podía pedir por ella un ojo de la cara. ¿No era una putada?

And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. I should know; I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray. Accordingly, the one respect in which I depart from my younger self is that I now regard those people who have little or no story to tell themselves as terribly fortunate.

Me, I think you only get at gist by assembling all the tiny inconclusive anecdotes that would fall flat at a dinner table and that seem irrelevant until you collect them in a pile.

I have spent less time thinking about my husband than thinking about lunch.

You were nice to me for almost ten years," he said gruffly. "Why should that count for nothing just because it's not going to be eleven?

Nothing is interesting of you're not interested. In vain, I had been waiting for Kevin to price out, to demonstrate as I stood arms folded that he was worthy of my ardor. That was too much to demand of a little boy, who would only be as lovable to me as I allowed him to be. It was past time that I at least met Kevin halfway.

But I've never met anybody whose life has taken a sudden turn for the worse who thought a reversal of fortune was just what they had coming to them.

He's getting old enough to appreciate, too, that one of the differences between a "perp," as they say in cop shows, and your average newspaper reader is that onlookers are allowed the luxury of getting "fucking tired of the same fucking story" and are free to move on. Culprits are stuck in what must be a tyrannical rehearsal of the same old tale.

Money is emotional," Lowell pronounced. "Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it's worth.

How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

By most people the 'sense of reality' is understood to be the submission to events and indeed illusion is often salvation.

Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.