Quotes About Perspective

Someone can intentionally send emotional poison, and if you don't take it personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse to the sender, but not in you.

Sva su ljudska bi?a pripovjeda?i koji pri?aju sa svojega vlastitog, jedinstvenog stajališta. Kad to shvatimo, više ne?emo osje?ati potrebu da svoju pri?u name?emo drugima ili branimo ono u što vjerujemo. Umjesto toga, sve ?emo ljude promatrati kao umjetnike koji imaju pravo stvarati vlastitu umjetnost.

How many times have you hooked other people's attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right? Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true.

Personal Importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Nothing other people do is because of you.

The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information. As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

Como observa el satírico James Branch Cabell, «los optimistas dicen que vivimos en el mejor de los mundos posibles; los pesimistas temen que sea verdad».528

adults forget how difficult that task was.

Engineers and designers simultaneously know too much and too little. They know too much about the technology and too little about how other people live their live and do their activities.

It is amazing how often people solve the problem before them without bothering to question it.

What is natural depends upon point of view, the choice of metaphor, and therefore, the culture. The design difficulties occur when there is a switch in metaphors. Airplane

Engineers and businesspeople are trained to solve problems. Designers are trained to discover the real problems. A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

You may not be interested in absurdity, she said firmly, but absurdity is interested in you.

art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality

I spoke to Sylvia. Do you think this is a good life?

My criticism was that you never understood the larger picture, said the Dead Father. Young men never understand the larger picture. -I don't suggest I understand it now. I do understand the frame. The limits. -Of course the frame is easier to understand. -Older people tend to overlook the frame, even when they are looking right at it, said Thomas. They don't like to think about it.

How old are you Hogo." "Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be." "You don't mind then. That you are not young." "It has its buggy aspects as what does not?" "You don't mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death." "No, Jane.

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

We are all dying of something, always, but our degrees of awareness differ - from Tubes

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.

When I was nineteen, I told a thirty- year-old man what a fool I had been when I was seventeen. 'We were always,' he said glancing down, 'a fool two years ago.

Life is hell but death is worse. - from No Deposit

Essays, like poems and stories and novels, marry heaven and hell. Contradiction is the cellular structure of life. Sometimes north dominates, sometimes south—but if the essay doesn't include contraries, however small they be, the essay fails.

When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth. But should the same infant die, would you measure the horror on the same rule? Grief weighs down the seesaw, joy cannot budget it.