Quotes About Perspective

we go through life grumbling about what should be at the expense of accepting what is

Not all of us require a violent life-threatening knock on the head to change our behavior. It only seems that way.

We think we control our environment but in fact it controls us.

It's hard to help people who don't think they have a problem. It's impossible to fix people who think someone else is the problem.

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.

Stop Asking for Feedback and Then Expressing Your Opinion

If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.

Never wrestle with a pig—because you both get dirty but the pig loves it

people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

It's not about you. It's about what other people think of you.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

The medium is the message.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

One day, years later, the soldiers wheeled around to find themselves in a city of glass. Their rifles turned to carnival glass; bullets dissolved, glittering, in their hands. From the poet's zoo they heard monkeys cry; from the poet's observatory they heard poem after poem like a call to prayer.

Mirar, escuchar: ponerse en modo esponja. Nunca deja de maravillarme el privilegio de que personas me cuenten sus historias, sus vidas; nunca deja de sorprenderme la cantidad de cosas que tantas personas pueden contarte si te ven dispuesto a escucharlas.