Quotes About Perspective

We live the stories we tell; the stories we don't tell live us.

What is healing, but a shift in perspective?

When you learn the trading skill of risk acceptance, the market will not be able to generate information that you define or interpret as painful. If the information the market generates doesn't have the potential to cause you emotional pain, there's nothing to avoid. It is just information, telling you what the possibilities are. This is called an objective perspective—one that is not skewed or distorted by what you are afraid is going to happen or not happen.

They manage our perception and interpretation of environmental information in a way that is consistent with what we believe.

objective perspective

When you genuinely accept the risks, you will be at peace with any outcome. When you're at peace with any outcome, you will experience a carefree, objective state of mind, where you make yourself available to perceive and act upon whatever the market is offering you (from its perspective) at any given "now moment.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.

We are, when it comes right down to it, all of us: mere monkeys at typewriters. (...) low order primate elevated to high order ecclesiastical primate, elevated still further in these darkest last days to ultimate prime A grade superior being. For doing that, which my father did without thinking.

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough. He reads not to see the world through the eyes of other people but effectively to become other people.

For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.

Stillness does not mean the elimination of disturbances as much as a different way of viewing them.

Can you grasp your right fist with your right hand? Obviously not -- your hand can't grasp itself. But there's another, less obvious reason why you can't do it: As soon as you open your right hand to grasp something, you no longer have a right fist.

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Getting hung up on 'how' is just the stupid part of your brain throwing a tantrum because it feels left out.

Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. 'God.' 'Science.' Meaning.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

24 YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING IF YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR MIND.

If you want to change your stereotypes, seek first-hand experience. Do not believe everything you are told. Find out for yourself. Talk

Maybe there's no such thing as the truth. Maybe it's all just a point of view,

I don't much care for intolerant right-wing Republicans, but these folks taught me I don't much care for intolerant left-wing Democrats either.

Are we rich?" "We're comfortable." He sometimes said things like that instead of yes or no. That's how lawyers answer questions.