Quotes About Perspective

In that moment I saw the part of the man that makes me feel pity: he has no ability to walk in other people's shoes, to see the world from another perspective, from Puerto Rico to the NFL.

Under Saddam Hussein, no al Qaeda. Under George Bush, al Qaeda. Under Saddam Hussein, relative stability. Under George Bush, instability. Under Saddam Hussein, about 30,000 deaths a year. Under George Bush, about 60,000 deaths a year. I don't get it. Why is it better to have George Bush the king of Iraq rather than Saddam Hussein?

the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.

And I was reminded of something I learned from another mentor, my first boss after I graduated, Massimo Vignelli, who once described the difference between complication and complexity. A love affair that's complex is wonderful, he said, but a love affair thats complicated is a disaster.

One accident that kills, say, 10 people gets far more attention than 10 accidents that kill 1 each. The 876 people each year who die on US tracks usually have little publicity, but imagine if they all occurred at once. . . .

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Living as a richer person among the poor is very stressful

that logic and reason, it turns out, are not at the center of our decision-making processes.

This book will show you the benefit of applying a completely different perspective to advance your career. We are looking at criminal environments to derive the influencing methodology and strategy, from psychopaths or criminal profilers.

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective.

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

I can't believe the Three Little Pigs are working for the bad guy." Daphne sighed. "I can't believe anyone still calls them the three little pigs." Mirror tittered. "That trio has been tipping the scales for as long as I can remember.

You can't force people to be thankful just because in your mind they seem to benefit from what you're doing… especially when what you're doing is something you would do anyway, even without them as an excuse.

Offense is in the mind of the offended.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Age to me is in the mind. I've seen 70-year-olds who are already dead and 90-year-olds who can't stop themselves living. I stay young by refusing to be old.

You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier.

Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.

With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.