Quotes About Perspective

People who see what's coming have faulty chronology, that is all.

Try and enjoy the here and now. The future will take care of itself somehow. The grass is never greener over there.

You should never envy anyone. One day you might be in that person's position and it might not be so nice.

The result of this is a disrespect for the world in general and a foreignness to anything around him that isn't immediately recognizable to his everyday habits. He has even begun to lose perspective on what his own assets and faults are, because he has nothing to measure these things against.

You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this?

Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science

Richard Bernstein's Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

Both books are fun to read, and you learn a lot whichever view you adopt. J. David Archibald's Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

Scepticism and pessimism aren't synonymous. Scepticism calls for pessimism when optimism is excessive. But it also calls for optimism when pessimism is excessive.

the world becomes a better place – an easier place to navigate if we admit that even though there are opinions, they may be wrong.

If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

I stand accused of bringing you more bad than good news. At times, and we are in such a time now, at times in human history, bad is disproportionate to good, and so I own up to the indictment. It's a fact of life, my Canadian brethren, that we cannot always control where the truth comes from, or how bad it turns out to be, or what it reveals about human nature.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

A poem reaches out exactly halfway, then you reach out halfway, then see what happens. If your thinking's willful and generous toward a poem, the poem'll be equally those things back. As for meaning, it'll mean something different to each person.

None of these classy locutions mean anything different from the simpler ones they replace. They work ceremonially, not semantically. Writing in a classy way to sound smart means writing to sound like, maybe even be, a certain kind of person. Sociologists, and other scholars, do that because they think (or hope) that being the right kind of person will persuade others to accept what they say as a persuasive social science argument.

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjöld

A founder's perspective is unique. Entrepreneurs are builders, and the lens through which I view Starbucks and the marketplace is somewhat different from what it would be if I were a professionally schooled manager.

My kids say, "Dad, come on, you don't know what's going on. You don't know the music. You don't know this, you don't know that. Here are the books you should be doing. Here's the film you should be making." And when I get to the office and someone says, "Can I get you a coffee? Can I get you a water?

It is very easy to sit in judgment upon the behavior of others but often difficult to realize that every judgment is a self-judgment.

I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story !

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

If men knew each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.