Quotes About Perspective

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Here are a few mind teasers to help you think in unexpected ways (see answers at end of chapter). • A bus with 15 passengers crashed and all but 9 people were killed. How many survivors were there? • How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark? • I have 2 coins that total $.35 in value. One is not a quarter. What are the 2 coins?

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Public speaking is very easy.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Art is an attempt to capture the truths of the world as you see it in a medium you can share with others. It is about lending your voice, your perspective to local, national, and global conversations. And that is why, in the United States in particular, our definition of what is art and who is an artist must be as varied as our citizenry.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

People can disagree politically and philosophically on all the issues that confront our nation, but if more of our elected officials had served in causes other than their own advancement, I believe they would approach their jobs with less certainty in their own assumptions and more sympathy for the needs of others.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

What sticks with me more than even that act of kindness was how my mother talked to me about it... So I asked my mother why we gave those families gifts at Christmas when we ourselves didn't have much. I remember then answering for myself: "It was because we felt sorry for them, right?" "We do not feel sorry for them," my mother said sternly, "We understand how they feel.

The legendary New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously quipped: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.

In art, you can find voices that channel your own life story better than you could ever express it yourself. And you can also find voices that introduce you to worlds you would never have otherwise visited.

Do not let the truth get in the way of a good story.

The more we are around people with a variety of life experiences, the more we can understand and value the needs and worth of our fellow citizens.

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally." - Dan Reynold

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

Terry cooked for me, but I resented having to do dishes. As I saw it, Terry liked cooking-he enjoyed it, he told me so. Well, I didn't enjoy washing dishes- I hated it, and I'd told him so-and didn't see why I should have to do something I hated after he got to do something he liked. I mean, that wasn't fair, was it?

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

I'm a little uncomfortable with all of this.' 'With what?' 'Well... doesn't it feel weird that we're only beating up... ...Asian people?' 'We're in Hong Kong. The bad guys are Asian. The good guys are Asian. Everyone here's Asian.' 'I'm just used to beating up people of all races and creeds. That's how I do it in New York. ...

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.