Quotes About Perspective

Straight people get married so that they can have sex. Gay men have sex so that they can get friends.

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favors.

I thought you said you were okay with turning forty.

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn't mean it's good." "Snob," Sam said.

Even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it. God

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

When we look at such boy play through the adult lens of violence, we miss the opportunity to use it as a window into a boy's hidden emotions.

And so we have the most basic structural framework of uniquely human cognition: socially shared realities and the ability to flexibly manipulate and coordinate different perspectives on aspects of those shared realities (mental coordination). This structural framework fundamentally transforms great ape cognition by turning straightforward cognitive representations into perspectival cognitive representations. Moreover,

The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

A hundred years ago behavior was explained by one shelf of books, now it's explained by a different shelf of books, and in a hundred years they'll explain it differently again.

Great investors conceptualize problems differently than other investors. These investors don't succeed by accessing better information; they succeed by using the information differently than others." Michael J. Mauboussin,

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.

Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.

Public life...lacks coherence and drama. (History, by contrast, attains coherence and drama only in hindsight.)

What is this 'white trash'?" asked the model. "They're people just like me," said Trump, "only they're poor.

Trump's entire world was construed from what he saw on television.

there was another rationalization: Trump was "inspirational not operational.

While nobody would ever say Trump was sensitive when it came to women, he had many views about how to get along with them, including a theory he discussed with friends about how the more years between an older man and a younger woman, the less the younger woman took an older man's cheating personally.

You'll be fine. It's only a little jail time. I do this all the time.

He had no ability to distinguish the important from the less important. There seemed to be no such thing as objective reality.

If Trump cared about something, he usually already had a fixed view based on limited information. If he didn't care, he had no view and no information.