Quotes About Perspective

If the human looks at anyone or anything other the place where food is kept, interrupt the view, explaining that you have not been fed in days, perhaps weeks, and you need sustenance this instant. As in immediately. Or sooner.

And concepts rejected when they came from someone else often looked better when rethought as one's own. Even the Emperor, it seemed, was not immune to that particular hubris.

When these pocket computers started getting common, old people like me catastrophized about how bad it was going to be, but we were wrong. It's much worse. We've been looking at each other's faces for a million years. But now you don't see faces anymore. At night on the sidewalks of Toronto people walk around in the dark looking down into tiny lamplit rooms they hold in their hands.

Men want to be right. Let them, I say. It drives him crazy when I won't take the other end of the rope. "Okay, you're right" are three devastating words.

That you really have nothing to complain about makes you lucky, it doesn't mean you're good or that there's a god who loves you personally.

Our grandparents' "normal" has become our "almost impoverished.

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

Do you believe in God?" he asks. "Do you?" "I used to" "What happened?" "I couldn't find him. He's supposed to be everywhere. I mean, he's not supposed to be playing hide-and-seek.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don't know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.

Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it's a brand new world.

It's showing Fox News—fair and balanced for those who like falling over.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

I'm so short I tread water in the kiddie pool. I need a ladder to get to the bottom bunk. I hit my head on the ground when I sneeze. I need a running start to reach the toilet. And no, I'm not related to Tom Cruise.

Audie could stare into the distance like he was looking across an ocean, or watching sparks floating above a campfire. He could make a cell seem like it had no walls.

Every day may not be good,' he said, 'but there is something good in every day.

Joe doesn't subscribe to the theory that we get the luck we deserve. Fairness is a hair color, not something to be balanced on a set of scales.

The truth is a story. The truth is a habit. The truth is a compromise. The truth is a casualty. The truth died long ago.

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Living in this world will change you," she confides. "It makes me value life. When a friend has a healthy baby, I don't think it's normal; I think it's a fucking miracle.

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries.

Possessing a theory of mind means that an individual ascribes mental states, such as purpose, intention, knowledge, beliefs, doubts, pretending, liking, and so forth, to himself and to others.

chapter, however, the modern perspective is that brains enable minds, and that YOU is your vastly parallel and distributed brain without a central command center. There is no ghost in the machine, no secret stuff that is YOU. That YOU that you are so proud of is a story woven together by your interpreter module to account for as much of your behavior as it can incorporate, and it denies or rationalizes the rest.

George grinned and observed that success is always grounded in simply asking the right question