Quotes About Perspective

It turns out that people can live very well with the situation where they make their case and yet another view is implemented, so long as the learning process is open and everyone acts with integrity.

Common usage, however, should not allow us to lose sight of the drawbacks of the term, of which the most important is that it assumes a Western domination of the world. That

Huntin too hard for the truth ain't a good idea, y'know," he added. "By the time you stumble over it, it ain't the truth no more. Unless there's death in it. I reckon death is about as close to truth as a man can come.

Course truth don't count for much after all these years cause folks hangs on to what it suits 'em to believe and won't let go of it.

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

Watson loved them sour kind of jokes, which I enjoyed myself. I mean, ain't life some kind of a sour joke? Might's well laugh, that's the way him and me seen it, whether nice folks seen the joke or not. One time when Watson caught me grinning along with him, he give a wink and lifted up his hat.

I think I must be disappointed, having come so far, and yet I do not feel that way. I am disappointed, and also, I am not disappointed. That the snow leopard is, that it is here, that its frosty eyes watch us from the mountain—that is enough.

Man wants the truth about Ed Watson," Daniels jeered. "Where you aim to find it? Smallwoods'll tell you their truth, Hardens'll tell you theirs. Fat-ass guard out there, he'll tell you his and I'll give you another. Which one you aim to settle for and make your peace with?

Mistaking Lucius's silence for acquiescence, he pointed a hard finger at his eyes. "Maybe nobody don't need this truth you're lookin for, ever think about that?

Of course I enjoy this life! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

The idea that one man's unique personal vision is greater than the importance of fashions in art or mainstream type philosophy.

Like many things he had believed, it had all been an illusion, only true because he had been gullible enough to believe in it. In reality, it had all been as flimsy and fleeting as an optical illusion; it depended entirely on your point of view. In calendar time, perhaps, those days weren't so long ago, but in his memory they sometimes seemed as if they had been dreamed by another person in another century.

Those old songs certainly brought back memories. Why did the past always seem so much brighter than the present? Because he had been more innocent then?

We have to be something more than the accumulation of things that happen to us, don't you think?

He didn't know why, but the sight of the water stretching out as far as the eye could see, until it met the sky way in the distance, evoked a feeling of awe in him: the way it was always changing, the surface swelling and dipping, the scudding whitecaps and huge breakers. It put you in your place, put things in perspective. He could watch it forever.

Obviously one man's Utopia is another man's hell.

No doubt, Annie guessed, as soon as Jennifer had got over the immediate shock of the break-up and got pissed with Melanie Scott a few times in Sicily, she had probably realized just how lucky she was to get out of the relationship.

when you visit a place you used to live in for a long time, you see it differently; you become more like a tourist in your own land.

this is not about the mere extension of life along a horizontal plane, but about the deepening of life along a vertical plane. Mere longevity cannot render life meaningful any more than brevity has the power to make it meaningless.

System thinking is a discipline of seeing whole.

The best insights about problems to be addressed often come from the worm's-eye view.

Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.