Quotes About Perspective

Stephen Covey's sixth habit of highly successful people, "Seek first to understand—then to be understood," applies to highly successful business developers.

Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?

For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how am, details die with time and stories change.

Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?

The philosopher with his two eyes sees double, so is unable to see the unity of the Truth. ? ???? ???? ?? ?? ????**?? ??? ????? ??? ??? ????

I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Answer a fool according to his folly" (Proverbs 26:4).

You know, no one ever appreciates you until you're gone.

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of us do likewise. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar

Thank God in an atheist.

Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names.

But I get ahead of myself, which is nearly as bad as getting Above Myself.

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.

But when I stood there and saw that the end of the journey was as vague and unreachable as the beginning had been, I realized I didn't care. No, more than that: I was relieved. I didn't want an ending, didn't want to get to the full stop of our story.

Keeper had shifted the limits of my world, or maybe simply rubbed them out. Now, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, he was preparing to take a free kick at me. It