Quotes About Perspective

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.

A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.

He did not understand what went on in a Chinese heart, that something like this could happen. The Indians made more sense.

he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.

happiness isn't to be pursued, it is to be enjoyed. Like life.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

If you think you'll get tired, then you will get tired. If you think you'll lose, you will lose.

see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

we live in different worlds, different realities

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

Wherever you go in the world, there will be people to tell you it'll be bigger, stranger, better, more authentic if you take the time to go somewhere else instead; but if you are there, you won't be here. You can only be at one place at a time, and sleep in one bed each night. Sometimes it's good to know where you are when you wake up.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

Keep your sense of humor. There is a 50-50 chance the world can be saved. You- yes you- might be the grain of sand that tips the scales the right way.

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed meeting fans face to face. They're less scary when they aren't going nuts at a Who show. But then, so am I.