Quotes About Perspective

Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was.

Remember: success does not lead to happiness—it's the other way around.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." —Albert Schweitzer

Your philosophy is your view of life, something beyond feelings and attitudes. Your philosophy drives your attitudes and feelings, which drive your actions.

Shared documents aren't shared understanding.

We can both read the same document, but have a different understanding of it.

Shared understanding is when we both understand what the other person is imagining and why.

Stories about backend services or security issues can be challenging. I see people writing and thinking about things from their own perspective, not that of the people who ultimately benefit: "as a product owner, I want you to build a file uploader so that the customer requirements are met." Nasty things like that.

She tucked her chin to her chest and looked at me like I was a Neanderthal. Except I remembered that scientists had recently discovered that Neanderthals were actually probably capable of complex thought and communication so that analogy wouldn't work anymore.

What makes you think I'm coping?" "Well, for one thing, you're not lying on the floor in the fetal position. That's a good start.

A tree looked like it was eating somebody, but it may also have been bathing them.

Being able to separate fantasy from reality was a real bummer. I

at least things didn't appear to be moving in a "Let's snap the wishbone" direction.

I'd finally healed enough from the aforementioned buttock injury that sitting was no longer painful, so I was enjoying the experience as much as possible. You don't realize how many times you're required to sit in any given day until you've been stabbed in the rear. And because injuries to that particular region are inherently hilarious, nobody gives you any sympathy. It's a lose-lose situation all around.

But being hit in the face with monkey poo is something that, deep inside, we all believe happens only to other people.

It's not the jungle. It's the rainforest." "Same thing." "No, it's not.

That doesn't change the fact that it's really hard to walk through the jungle when you can't see." "It's not the jungle. It's the rainforest." "Same thing." "No, it's not.

Boyd wasn't scared of clowns. Never had been. He thought their antics were delightfully amusing, just as they intended.

Every day's a sunshiny day when you don't have maggots and spiders eating your guts.

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

If you were me, which I am,

If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven't changed instead." A warning from his mother, once upon a time, delivered as if she'd upended a box of spy-advice fortune cookies and chosen one at random.

Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman?

The world is filled with people who have too much imagination solely because the people around them have too little.