Quotes About Perspective

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are

psychologist David Premack refers to as the "Russian-novel problem"—that is, when looking at the history of two animals (or humans), it is often hard to know what caused what, since the two may have interacted in so many ways over such a long time, and they may also remember events differently and act according to this subjective experience.

The experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us."11

they looked 'like a well-lit-up street', nine miles long.

The view from the duke's office has changed very little in the past 200 years.

except in one crucial particular. It wasn't London.

Your imagination is tricking you into making negative assumptions about people based on past experience. Your imagination is running the show, and the score is coming imagination one, you zero.

All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more

Quando as pessoas gostam de você, elas veem o melhor em você. Quando não, tendem a ver o pior. É senso comum, na verdade. Se

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

the computer is never a neutral tool. It influences, for better or worse, the way a person works and thinks.

Instead of requiring us to puzzle out where we are in an area, a GPS device simply sets us at the center of the map and then makes the world circulate around us.

vastly overvalue what happens to us right now,

One of the great failings of the American education system, in our view, is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. Study-abroad

Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.

America's schools rarely convey much understanding of the 2.7 billion people (40 percent of the world's population) who today live on less than $2 a day.

When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.

I guess that's all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

I guess that's all forever is. Just one big long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

Man is the measure of all things', meaning that there is no truth except that which man perceives.

The French director Robert Bresson made the observation: "My job is not to find out what the public want and give it to them; my job is to make the public want what I want.

It is true, mountains everywhere are mountains, water everywhere is water, sky everywhere is sky, and men everywhere are men. But nevertheless, if seated before the Alps, you attempt to picture the Himalayas, something inexplicable but convincing will be lacking.

We're none of us, are we, just one thing? I am a policeman, but also a father, a husband for the time being, a nursemaid to a sister who I pray will survive her illness. You are a journalist, a writer, and I don't know what else besides. To look at a person from a single angle is to deform them. Even if Yolanda is guilty...she is also afraid of the dark. And I cannot forget that I put her there.

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.