Quotes About Perspective

The game itself is bigger than the winning.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

The thing that [Afrikans] must remember is that everything [White people] produce has a political purpose.

they will later reveal truth after history has digested the lie.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

I sat at the table and listened to the women swap stories about the people in our town.They were able to find so much to laugh about; I wondered who was sitting at a table somewhere laughing at us.

One of them told me that the United States Constitution gave Chad Lowe the right to bear arms." Junior paused."I asked him if it gave me the same right. He stopped laughing then, told me to try it and see.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

You see, I am good at filling in blanks, at seeing meaning where there may have been none at all. In this way I get very close to the truth. Or closer still to illusion.

By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

What a man wishes he generally believes to be true

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.