Quotes About Perspective

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.