Quotes About Perspective

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.

We see the world through our experience.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.