Quotes About Perspective

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.

Empathy before education.

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

No communication takes place until the other person feels heard

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me, " he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation just barely missed it, which I don't think is a good thing or a bad thing.

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.