Quotes About Perspective

before you tackle the bruising challenge of talking to "crazy," make sure you have a good reason to go there.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. —KAHLIL GIBRAN, POET AND PHILOSOPHER

The trick to this approach is to ask the question ("Do you really believe that?") not in a hostile or degrading manner, but very calmly and in a straightforward way. Your intent is not to antagonize the other person, but rather to make the person stop and realize, "I really am making a mountain out of a molehill. I must sound like a jackass.

identify the negative qualities that you find most bothersome in the people around you and start acting toward these people as though they're exhibiting the opposing positive qualities. For

But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.

Part of knowing your product is knowing all the reasons someone might not want to buy it. Anticipate the reasons. State them clearly in your mind, spell them out on paper if necessary—and have an answer ready for each of them.

and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

Sooner or later, we have to realize that Jesus is more than church.

dislodge the cultural brainwash that makes so many people so completely miserable. I

I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.

Idealism is not a reliable guide to the meaning of Revelation.

Those who are rich in the things of this world need to remember that all they possess come from the Creator. He owns it all. This is a relevant reminder in our day as well:

the past is only the future with the lights on.

Essentially, each scientist (or even each person reading the research) with a point of view adheres to his or her position with near religious fervor.

Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and insight into ontological questions that might otherwise escape our notice within the default assumptions we make about reality.

Marie Antoinette is said to have dismissed the plight of the poor by declaring, "Let them eat cake." But there's no evidence the queen ever said it, and plenty of evidence that Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. His autobiographical book, "Confessions," included the phrase about 1767, before Marie Antoinette even got to France. The quote in the original French refers to brioche, which is not really a cake and is better described as an enriched bread roll.

Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

it's usually a bad one, a negative thought, but we have

Some people say that I talk too fast, but I think it's just that they listen too slowly.

I'd rather have wordly power than worldly power.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

images can bring hopefulness.

Yet there is a still more crucial transformation of time: it becomes an agent that does things to the one passing through it. Many a prisoner will give voice to this idea by saying, "You don't do time; time does you.