Quotes About Perspective

Like most people, he believed that lies, no matter how often you told them, never became truth.

We cannot know whether our pain is like anybody else's pain until we talk about it. Once we do that, we speak and think in ways cultural and individual. In this country, for example, someone fleeing for his life will think he should call for the police. This is a reasonable way to cope with the threat of pain. But in my country, no one calls for the police, since it is often the police who inflict the pain.

B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age.

while pain is universal, it is also utterly private.

Americans liked seeing people eye to eye, the General had once told me, especially as they screwed them from behind.

Almost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming ever more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere. But

I am simply able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess.

Those who believe in revolutions are the ones who haven't lived through one yet.

At last! Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.

IAM A SPY, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, although some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides.

Good-bye, America, the grizzled captain said during our ascent, looking out the window at a landscape I could not see from my aisle seat. I've had enough of you, he said. The affectless lieutenant, sitting in the middle, agreed. Why did we ever call it the beautiful country? he said. I had no answer.

It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things.

Pidin itseäni runoilijana. Sinä pidit itseäsi toimittajana. Sinusta minä olin kohtalainen runoilija. Minusta sinä olit kohtalainen toimittaja.

Am i a photograph you gaze at in moments of weakness? You ordered me off my knees into your arms Wasn't to beg that I knelt; only to see you once from below.

Decision Making is impacted more by ones Altitude rather than ones attitude !

Learn to enjoy what you have or else you will never value anything that you receive

good-bad,right-wrong,once you tag things like that,you lose the ability to see the complete truth.... A murderer can also be a loving father. Don't tag things. Words are insufficient to describe the picture in totality. Try not to get trapped in the dictionary meaning of words.

As Paul Saffo, a forecaster of large-scale change at Discern Analytics, observes wisely, 'Change is never linear. Our expectations are linear, but new technologies come in S curves, so we routinely overestimate short-term change and underestimate long-term change.' Never mistake a clear view for a short distance, he adds.

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

You should take a good look at all sides of an issue before making a decision. Put something away in case of an emergency. New neighbors will bring good cheer. A small problem may occur at home base, but you will solve it quickly and correctly. Don't offer smart advice unless you are really asked to comment.

I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.

What would I do with all that wealth? Eventually a man just needs six feet of cloth for his shroud.