Quotes About Perspective

The person I am with a seventy-year-old body (and all its accumulated experience) will not only look but will truly be different from the person I was with an eighteen-year-old body. Same person but – thank God – so different!

But if there is an ongoing, nagging disconnect between, on the one hand, what I can and must affirm to be true and good on the basis of my present "culturally conditioned" experience and, on the other hand, what "the Bible tells me is so," something has to give. Sometimes something has to give on both sides.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11)

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

Scholars in a great many disciplines focus their studies on human beings. The main differences between the disciplines are not the objects of their study nor even the methods they use, but the points of view that guide their inquiries.

To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world.

How do you see this tree? Is it green? ...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible.

Neuznávám žádnou jinou pravdu, kromÄ› pravdy umÄ›lecké lži.

Our lives are like lace, appearing unbelievably complicated and mixed up to others. It is essential to remember that your life has to make meaning only to you.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Indeed there may be more: a chorus of me, the observed and the observers.

You're such an optimist Kane -- that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.

Rather, it is a story about an important contemporary issue from a particular perspective, one that is

Compared with this problem, the original theory of relativity is childish. (Einstein to Sommerfeld on the gravitational problem)

That May, Einstein excitedly informed a friend, "In the tranquility of my sickness, I have laid a wonderful egg in the area of general relativity. Whether the bird that will hatch from it will be vital and long-lived only the gods know. So far I am blessing my sickness that has endowed me with it.

Despite these warnings, the Great powers' arsenals were brimful; their ranks, swollen. In this light, to suggest they groped or sleepwalked blindly into a battle not of their making is nonsense. To many politicians and commanders, the coming war was seen as necessary; some relished it as noble and desirable. To most, it was regarded as inevitable.

The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or their own baggage of values and prejudices.

There are three things needed to be a great photographer. In this order. You and your keen eye, a great lens and a camera to make the shot.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.