Quotes About Perspective

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

People working for the autocrat believe they are working for someone. Those reporting to the diplomat believe they are working zoit/i someone.

Experience is like rhubarb. You got to add sugar to make a pie.

Spider was circumscribed by spider ideas; its universe was spider universe. All outside was irrational, extraneous, at best raw material for spider. As I proceeded on my way along the gully, like a vast impossible shadow, I realized that in the world of spider I did not exist.

Nothing you do in your life will harm the planet in any way, shape or form; Nothing you do in your life will help the planet in any way shape or form. The planet is going to outlive us all!

do not believe in my truth and I do not believe in your truth. I believe in the truth.

How come you got to start making the bed the minute your feet hit the floor? You need to lighten up, girl. Live a little!' Then she'd laugh, delighted with herself and at my inability to be angry with her.

what we remember depends upon what we believe—the human mind is not an objective recorder of information . . ." ~ MJ Brogan, Sins Not Forgotten

We go through life mishearing and mis-seeing and misunderstanding so that the stories we tell ourselves will add up. We fill in gaps that make no sense because we want to believe something.

interpret a thing in exactly the same way. The world is dynamic in that respect

People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit. My job is to tell the truth, kultaseni. That is my belief with this newspaper of mine . . . that's why I started it.

People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit.

Right. Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.

What's wrong with me? I'll tell you what's wrong, Daisy. This Waheed guy is brown and I'm white—I'm a white guy nearing middle age and times have changed and everyone needs the optics of diversity.

That you traveled as far away from this place as you possibly could, only to find yourself back, and it's all concertinaed down to nothing?

People live in the six inches of real estate between their ears—in that three pounds of fat and protein that is the human brain. They live inside their heads. That's where reality resides. That's where every single human constructs an individual narrative of their life. That's where they tell themselves who they are, and what they can and can't be. And no person's reality can ever be the same as anyone else's.