Quotes About Perspective

Reasons get forgotten.

Perché nessuno possa dimenticare che non si è mai lontani abbastanza per trovarsi, mai.

Ma sarebbe ridicolo il dimostrar che uomini potevano veder cose che l'uomo non può non vedere: può bensì non volerci badare.

Ora sapete come è l'aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura; alla prova poi, difficile, schizzinosa: non trova mai tanto che le basti, perché, in sostanza, non sapeva quello che si volesse; e fa scontare senza pietà il dolce che aveva dato senza ragione.

Ah!- diceva poi tra sè don Abbondio, tornato a casa: - se la peste facesse sempre e per tutto le cose in questa maniera, sarebbe proprio peccato il dirne male; quasi quasi ce ne vorrebbe una, ogni generazione; e si potrebbe stare a patti d'averla; ma guarire, ve'. -

Alzandosi tutti, vedevano né più né meno che se fossero stati tutti con le piante in terra; ma tant'è, tutti s'alzavano.

oral history is ultimately ... a document that we do not find but rather cocreate inside the interview

The root meaning of the word dialogue is "to speak across," "to speak beyond." This suggests that the crucial element is space, both social and geo- graphic: the distance, the difference, the otherness between the two partners involved

The interview is not a question-and-answer session, but the offer of a narrative possibility

The interview, then, is a historical and social event ... In the interview, we are the coauthors, the cocreators of a document that, to some extent, is about us as well as about the persons we interview.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Normal is all relative.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

At an academic conference I learned the old adage that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

The Munduruku have many things, but not enough numbers to count them. Cantor has provided us with as many numbers as we like, but there are no longer enough things to count.

Everything depends which side of the shotgun you're on,

the reason he had known about Islam long before he studied the religion at Dartmouth. He was one-quarter Muslim by birth. Noor had

We're in different beds but we have the same dream." Li smiled. Cao had reversed the Chinese proverb of "different dreams in the same bed." The implication of the saying was that no two people could fully trust each other. Even a husband and wife who'd slept beside each other for fifty years had different dreams.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

If you don't love your body, change your mind; if your partner doesn't love your body, change your partner.

If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.

Young people will always manage to achieve the impossible–whether that is on the football field or inside a company or other big organisation. If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.

There is a psychological dimension also to handling indiavidual players. With errant behaviour it helps to look for a moment through their eyes. You were young once, so put yourself in their position. You do something wrong, you're waiting to be punished. What's he going to say?' you think. Or, What's my dad going to say?' The aim is to make the biggest possible impact. What would have made the deepest imprint on me at that stage of life?