Quotes about Perspective

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.

And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.

Sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.