Quotes About Perspective

He took twelve pictures that day. Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol

Nobody sees as we do, Patti" he said again. Whenever he said things like that, for a magical space of time, it was as if we were the only two people in the world.

We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

A real prison breakfast" I said. "Yeah, but we are free." And that summed it up.

Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality.

You know, the dreams you had for me weren't my dreams," he said. "Maybe those dreamsare meant for you.

Oh take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids.

Hey, sister. What's your situation?" "On earth or in the universe?" p.27

Fred didn't swim either. He said Indians didn't swim.

Mein Hemd war etwas zerknittert, aber warum sollte es ihm besser gehen als mir.

Nobody sees as we do, Patti

Hey, sister. What's your situation?" "On earth or in the universe?" He laughed and said, "All right!

Will you take a picture? she said. I looked down at the bleak panorama and shook my head. How could I take a picture of nothing?

Da lui ho imparato che la contraddizione è spesso la più limpida forma di verità

When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

that without a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality

Coloring excited him, not the act of filling in space, but choosing colors that no one else would select. In the green of the hills he saw red. Purple snow, green skin, silver sun. He liked the effect it had on others, that it disturbed his siblings.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

I hope… that we are making China more interesting and less exotic to our Europeanist colleagues. Soon it may no longer suffice for historians of Europe to make mere polite bows in the direction of China; they will have to become more familiar with Chinese history on a serious level in order to carry on their work in European history effectively.

Did I realize at the time how high interest rates might go before we could claim success? No. From today's vantage point, was there a better path? Not to my knowledge—not then or now.

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things.