Quotes About Perspective

There is a difference between seeing the world and being in it, which is one point that alludes most people.

Second and third opinions can be valuable, but don't spin your wheels and lose time by getting ten opinions.

Understand that the task is to shift the demand for the right answer to the search for the right question.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

2) Asking For The Order Doesn't Motivate People To Buy. What motivates people to buy is when they get that you "get" them—that you understand their world, and have shown how your product/service will impact their company in ways important to them. In most cases, the salesperson that wins the deal isn't the one with the best product or lowest price, but the one who best articulates the customer's point of view.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards.

To possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others: this I think captures our love of and our need for novels, for fictional accounts of the world that let us experience it beyond the limits of our own pair of eyes, to imagine it, provisionally, as it is seen and felt by someone else, however different that person may be.

everything," Balzac claims, "is a mosaic.

We need novels in order to enter the minds of others. But that project can run up against the opacities of other minds and spirits. When a man tells us of a woman's desiring, we should beware of blindness.

I came to Australia as a damaged grown up adult, and it took me years to heal, so my perspective of the national Australian pride is not full. It [assimilation] penetrates, it's accepted, it's tolerated, and I think the third generation it is absorbed. I don't know about the second generation, - Holocaust survivor, Kitia Altman

One thing that I find very weird here in Australia is Latvians in Australia celebrate Latvian traditions by a calendar, not by the seasons as they do in Latvia. It's a bit strange for me, everyone said a few weeks ago, 'Merry Christmas,' in Latvian, or maybe Winterfest, and here I was sweating like a pig saying, 'Merry Winterfest!' – Viktor Brenners, 2nd Generation DP

somos todos ignorantes, só que sobre coisas diferentes", como observou o romancista e humorista norte-americano Mark Twain em um de seus numerosos aforismos sobre o assunto.

The stories we create to understand ourselves become the narratives of our lives, explaining the accidents and choices that have brought us where we are: what I'm good at, what I care about most, and where I'm headed.

One man's nonsense is another man's sense.

It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replaced by a different, more complex, person. You watch him revolve in this new company, revealing new facets, and there is nothing you can do but hope you like these other sides as much as you like the side that seemed whole when it faced only you.

I like life. I would not want to live forever, but for a little while, life is fine.

A me sembra perfetto. Sono proprio contento che mi stia calando la vista, mi sembra sempre tutto perfetto. È la dimostrazione evidente che c'è un Dio». «Cosa?». «Il fatto che ci si appanni la vista man mano che invecchiamo. Altrimenti sarebbe insopportabile, soprattutto per chi è stato bello da giovane».

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

The problem with this poem, from your perspective, must be its lack of financial value. I guess my problem with you, from my perspective, is how you insist on putting a financial value on everything.

One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.