Quotes About Perspective

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret.

Si te rodeas de personas más pequeñas que tú, acabarás siendo un enano. Si te rodeas de personas más grandes que tú, te convertirás en un gigante.

They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.

In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going.

Majority Christian opinion on various issues has sometimes shifted profoundly.

The Bible cannot be the primary source of knowledge and criterion of truth in all areas of importance.

other ways of knowing—indeed, other ways of hearing God address us. These include tradition, science, reason, experience, intuition, community, and relationships. The power of a narrow evangelical biblicism must be broken, but you can't replace something with nothing.

No two people see things the same.

To lose is to win.

And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.' 'Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.' 'Why's that then?' he smiles. 'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.

Nothing is ever the way they say it is. Nothing is ever the way you want it to be.

No more dead dogs and slashed swans for us," whispered Dick Alderman, like this was good news- It wasn't.

We take it for granted that the sun rises in the east every morning and sets in the west at night. The next day, the sun does the same thing again. But what if I told you that the sun isn't moving at all? It's us who are spinning and moving around the sun! I trust you already knew that, but the takeaway from the analogy is that we tend to get mentally wedded to ideas that are no longer valid. After

I am blessed to travel this country to talk about racism. Yes, its a blessing, but in every place someone says, 'If you stop talking about race, racism will go away.' That doesn't even make stupid sense. The reality is that we talk about race all the time, in corridors, in offices, at ballgames, but we do not often talk about it in places where our ideas are challenged."

You don't have to be black, brown, red, or yellow to do good research about the experiences of people of color. You don't have to fabricate a racial/ethnic identity to be a researcher--or even an activist. Knowledge belongs to all of us. Activism belongs to all of us. Stop centering yourselves in the lived experiences of people of color. Just do the work that needs to be done.

metaphor' itself is not a static, ahistorical term; it is not as though there is a pervasive, universal concept of metaphor which can be applied, like a template, to all ages and cultures.

metaphors themselves are time-bound and ideologically motivated.

Metaphor makes us look at the world afresh, but it often does so by challenging our notions of the similarities that exist between things; how alike they are; and in what ways, in fact, they are irreconcilably unalike.

History is a fable agreed upon.

We all make our deals with life. We do it invisibly, sometimes unconsciously, and alone, without benefit of collective bargaining, We come to terms.

To become a different kind of person is to experience the world in a different way. When your mind changes, the world changes. And when we respond differently to the world, the world responds differently to us.

Lessons in life are context specific. Contexts are never the same. If there are no lessons you can use does that mean there are actually no lessons