Quotes About Perspective

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.