Quotes About Perspective

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares. Therefore, as Mr. Wilde said, no two people can perceive the same "truth," because each person's perspective is different.

The hardest thing about being a manager is realizing that your people will not do things the way that you would. But get used to it. Because if you try to force them to, then two things happen. They become resentful — they don't want to do it. And they become dependent — they can't do it. Neither of these is terribly productive for the long haul.

Much modern art is no longer about the appreciation of an aesthetic and skill by the likes of Rembrandt or Leonardo, but rather the interesting message and perspective that the artist is revealing about our relationship to our world.

the Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.

When we read Paul, we are reading somebody else's mail—and unless we know the situation being addressed, his letters can be quite opaque...It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb. Well, only men who have gone through

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

I see the method in your madness, but there's too much madness in your method.

know Lee and Lisa. But you did.

one to see a trucker

Okay. Life isn't like the movies—you know, how the bad guys just want to be bad guys, villains. In real life, there aren't very many villains. Mostly, people believe they're doing the right thing. Even the ones who are doing bad things usually believe they're heroes, that whatever terrible thing they're doing is to prevent something worse. They're scared.

He hadn't really known them, and like most people, he was just solipsistic enough to not truly believe they existed when he wasn't there. We're all background characters in someone else's movie. Maybe

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.

Good news, bad news.

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it. Brody poured drinks in crystal tumblers.

Turning the other cheek was a lovely sentiment, but in the real world, it mostly resulted in matching bruises.

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.