Quotes About Perspective

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

Every book is a unique experience.

I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

I've experienced a lot of crap in my life but the one thing that I have learned, is it is better to laugh about it rather than complain about it.

Be Happy with what we Have Now in the Future it can change, but that is not Always to Better.

the best woman is beautiful inside, most forget that the outside is temporary, but it makes most men blind without they thinking what will happen in future.

In every moments of life, we're all having up and down.If there are no up or down, it means we didn't have any life.

You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won't have the same experience unless you climb yourself.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.