Quotes About Perspective

I turned to memory, knowing full well that it is revisionist and that each time we remember something, we alter it slightly, massaging our perspective and layering it with new understanding in order to make meaning in the present.

My mother had narrowed her vision and chosen happiness, and I had willingly signed on, both of us ignoring the dangers of the new terrain.

But in instances where I could not substantiate a physical or emotional detail, I turned to memory, knowing full well that it is revisionist and that each time we remember something, we alter it slightly, massaging our perspective and layering it with new understanding in order to make meaning in the present.

Jack didn't happen to me: I happened to Jack.

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. —GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

Books will change your life... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life. You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself.

But I also found my depression tedious—tedious to live through, tedious to explain, tedious to be around. I was bored by my own relentless loop and felt sure I was boring everyone around me.

The world is round; it has no point.

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.

Strabo also described the sexual mores of the mountain tribes of Media (northwestern Iran): the men have up to five women and 'likewise the women believe it honorable to have as many men as possible and consider less than five a calamity.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions of the world knows the extraordinary sense of shedding, as it were, the encumbrance of someone else's baggage, of ceasing to translate.

in every room, the furniture reflects you larger than life, or dwindling

because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.