Quotes About Perspective

Anyone who says, "Here's my address, write me a poem," deserves something in reply. So I'll tell a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Good and evil." I chuckle under my breath. "Such binary thinking. So simplistic. So boring. Everything is shades of gray, Emery. There is no such thing as good people or evil people. There are simply people. And some of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get what we want. I don't think you're one of them. Do you understand what I'm telling you?

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

What is history but a fable agreed upon ?

History is a series of lies on which we agree.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.

Men, in general, are but great children.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

Qu'est ce que l'histoire, sinon une fable sur laquelle tout le monde est d'accord.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. If that saying doesn't convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing will.

You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?

not a body of facts, it is a way of thinking.