Quotes About Perspective

Why write a novel if it was going to offer more or less the same experience someone could get by turning on a television?

I remind myself that I was lucky to have any time with him at all. What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

Wszyscy mamy gorsze dni. Ale w porównaniu z tym co mieliÅ›my przedtem, czujemy, jakbyÅ›my dopiero teraz... ?yli peÅ'niÄ… ?ycia.

but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought through thoroughly.

was speaking to me. 'It must be nice sometimes to have no feelings. I envy you.' I considered this, then said: 'I believe I have many feelings. The more I observe, the more feelings become available to me.

Firstly, we must widen our common literary world to include many more voices from beyond our comfort zones of the elite first-world cultures.

We drove past a large creature with numerous limbs and eyes, then even as I watched, a crack appeared down its center. As it divided itself, I realized it had been, all along, two separate people – a runner and a dog walk woman – moving in opposite directions who for an instant happened to be passing one another. Then came a store with a sign saying 'Eat In Take Out' and in front of it, a lost baseball cap on the sidewalk.

it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought through thoroughly.

Chân tr?i tít t?p là má»™t Ä'i?u t?t ??p khi anh còn tr?. NhÆ°ng ??n tu?i này r?i thì anh ph?i... anh ph?i có ???c má»™t góc nhìn má»›i.

About him and his wife voting for different parties. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable." "No doubt." "Quite extraordinary the things that happen now. But that's what's meant by democracy, I suppose." Ogata-San gave a sigh. "These things we've learnt so eagerly from the Americans, they aren't always to the good." "No, indeed they're not.

As a writer, I am more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

My mother fell silent for some moments. Then she said: 'When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.

La vida ya nos trae muchos desengaños por sí sola. Si encima tiene esos sueños...

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what? and the why? of the big picture.

our objective at trial is not the ultimate truth but an opinion in our favour.

It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.

It is unwise to judge an argument by its least articulate proponents.

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

Life experience. I can talk it up, vow to broaden my horizons, but I'm still limited to the experiences with my life. How can a person understand an experience that lies completely outside her own? She can see it, feel it, imagine what it would be like to live it, but it's no different from seeing a movie on a screen and saying, "Thank God that's not me".

If you want that kind of thing, call Nick. His advice is shit, but he really likes to give it.

So, let me get this straight, he said to me. You save my ass and you're a loser. I stick up for you because of it and I'm a hero. How does that work? I don't know. But it's so sweet.

The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half my clothing to a charity drive at school. It had seemed perfectly sensible to me-I didn't need so much stuff-but she'd stared at me like Margaret was now, with a mix of horror and disbelief.