Quotes About Perspective

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.