Quotes About Perspective

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.