Quotes about Perspective

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since

It's interesting that, there really is no Proverbs 31 for men in the Bible. Men need the whole Bible, women need a chapter.

There is always that little voice in your head saying, "What about me?" Sometimes that little voice drowns out the cry of the team, and the collective results of the group get left behind.

Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.

You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.

You might find contradictory taboos. In one culture it might seem shocking to think x, while in another it was shocking not to. But I think usually the shock is on one side. In one culture x is ok, and in another it's considered shocking. My hypothesis is that the side that's shocked is most likely to be the mistaken one.

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.