Quotes About Perspective

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

La narrativa surge de la violación de la expectativa».

Cuando en una historia el factor yo-a-nosotros es fuerte, el beneficio primario para el narrador es la empatía.

One of the children excitedly jumped in with, "Yeah, the bad guy broke the window and …" Susie immediately reframed the narrative. "Not a bad guy. He just made a decision for his own benefit and didn't consider other people.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.

Nothing corrupts like happiness. It makes us think that since we share this moment, we can also share the past.

That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

The true reality of things is not important. What's important is what people believe

I have lost the sense of how to tackle a believing European.

You can learn something about your fellow human beings from what they write in the margin

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

When Kevin Rudd announced that Australia would bid for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council Tony Abbott announced his immediate opposition. The bid would be abandoned in the event of a Coalition victory at the 2010 election, he pledged. The total cost was then estimated at perhaps $40 million, though ended up at around $25 million.16 For perspective, the Victorian Government spent $56.7 million to subsidise the Grand Prix in 2012 alone.17

Being with Steffens is to me like flashes of clear light; it is as if I see him, and myself, and the world, with new eyes." Steffens

never to put oneself in the place of non-Germans was part and parcel of being a National Socialist.

But put yourself in my position and think logically, and you yourself will come to the conclusion that you cannot act differently because the number of the portion that can be saved is much larger than the part that must be surrendered.

Why? Because he believed that "living in the expectation of death . . . would . . . be . . . harder" than living with an illusion. His position may have been highly humane, but it was also debilitating.

History has all too often been guilty of favouring the viewpoint of autocratic rulers in describing their glorious victories, when there is so much else that needs to be said.

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?

Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back.

Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)

She also confessed that in an odd way she was happier here than she'd ever been. Even with all the loss. Happier being whatever that was. Than waiting.