Quotes About Perspective

Betly was a successful man and thought that everyone else should love life as much as he did.

They had their lives, and I had mine. I liked most of all pretending to be a biologist, and pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance

A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.

I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

One person's inflammatory rhetoric is another person's poetry,

But what he meant is that we must always keep one foot in the client's world.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Give someone half a page in a newspaper and they think they own the world.

Life is far too short to bear malice, I always say. You play the cards you're dealt, as I did once with Richard Harris at Shepperton Studios. The fact that I lost every penny I had -- he wouldn't play house rules -- and that he wouldn't even give me the fare home matters not a fig and is now so blurred in my memory it is hardly worth mentioning.

Don't feel happy at me.

Don't be happy at me.

Renaissance painters saw everything from one perspective, photographically, "realistically," but medieval painters looked at a scene from several different perspectives at once. A medieval picture looked at with this in mind becomes very exciting indeed. It is as if the artist is everywhere at once: the castle is tiny as if seen from afar; the men on its battlements huge as if encountered face to face; this lake is seen from that distance and that tree from this.

Just because we live in Vanity Fair, does not mean we have to look like Vanity Fair to warn the lovers of Vanity Fair to forsake Vanity Fair. Motives

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see," which I interpret to mean that looking way back into the past provides much better perspective into the enduring patterns of history. I'd

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an old attitude quote by Aldous Huxley, "It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you.