Quotes About Perspective

I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.

Since The Day, he had lived in the imperative present, not daring to plan beyond the next meal or the next day. This bit of paper tacked on peeling white paint abruptly enlarged his perspective, as if, stumbling through a black tunnel, he saw, or thought he saw, a chink of light. If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

When groupthink occurs, the group isolates itself from the outside world and the information it contains.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

Each culture defines its own idiosyncracies and then forgets that it has done so.

Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.

Verla says that no one thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.

What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in some future years at things you hardly notice, that are happening in what is known to you as the present.

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.

I'd bring our big players out to the perimeter and make them run the play like a guard, so they saw the play from that angle as well as their own. When one of our bigs got upset if a guard didn't make a play, I'd say, "Fine. You go play point.

about one's life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We're too busy standing in the middle of it all to remember everything perfectly

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. HELEN KELLER

If you only read what you agree with, you'll never learn anything. - James D. Hodgson

I can't defend this position, but I think I take photographs because there are things that nobody would see unless I photographed them.

The camera is an instrument of detection…we photograph what we know and what we don't know… when I point my camera at something I am asking a question and the photograph is sometimes an answer… In other words, I am not trying to prove anything. I am the one who is getting the lesson.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

The view from outside is a better place to examine a society.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

Stay out of this," she (Christy) snapped at me, wiping futilely at her cheeks. "This isn't your business." "When you blamed Adam, whose only fault that I can see is that he has poor taste in wives, you made it my business," I told her. Honey cleared her throat. "You do know you are one of his wives, right?" I raised an eyebrow. "Happily, he doesn't know how bad off he is with me—and I intend that he never will.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.