Quotes About Perspective

I don't want to make too much of androstenedione, though. Testosterone isn't the only hormone that's overrated. All hormones are ultimately overrated, as well as poorly understood. But even though we know this mantra, we still get shackled by testosterone and need a new perspective to shake ourselves free.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Novels are longer than life.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along—consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about.

Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don't have the constraints of conscious logic.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get close to those tables and chairs, to jump in and feel myself dancing with them, even as I sat drawing them. I didn't want things to lie down; I wanted them to come forward, to beckon and call, to be noticed on the paper as I was noticing them in real life. I wanted the viewer to have a direct connection with the objects, to feel as happy as I was in their presence.

This kind of balance was more natural to me than perspective. Perspective is a way to make objects "lie down" in a painting. In the Western world, we have a notion that things recede and converge as they go farther away. You're supposed to draw them smaller and at a certain

I remember learning one-point perspective in seventh grade in the one art class I took. The guide lines had to be made just so, and we used rulers as we did in math class. I did everything the teacher said and

Entire wars have been based on our inability to see.

In college in the late sixties, I read almost exclusively male writers, usually dead, from England and the rest of Europe. They were very far removed from my daily life, and though I loved them, none of them reflected my experience. I must have subconsciously surmised that writing was not within my ken. It never occurred to me to write, though I secretly wanted to marry a poet.

If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense of poverty. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

He's more of a Death person than a Dinner Roll person...

When we were upset as little girls, Dad used to say, "Let's go to the window and see if we see anyone as unhappy as we are." And he would lead us to the window, where we'd watch people pass by in the street until we cheered up.

Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.

Men don't become worth your while until they're in their thirties." … "Well, it's not automatic with all men, you know." … "With women, of course, it's different. Women are born interesting.

Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.

the wages of empire is myopia