Point Of View Quotes

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.

When the other fellow takes a long time, he’s slow. But when I take a long time, I’m thorough. When the other fellow doesn’t do it, he is lazy. But when I don’t do it, I’m too busy. When the other fellow does something without being told, He’s overstepped his bounds. But when I do […]

Our ability to look at the same thing from the perspective of other people… By the utterly mysterious power of the imagination, that strange ability to make present what is absent and to make ourselves absent from our immediate presence and present to some absent perspective, we are able to put ourselves in the other’s […]

Two men look out through the same bars; One sees the mud, and one the stars.

Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree Discussing thing as they’re said to be. Said one to another, “Now listen, you two, There’s a certain rumor that cannot be true, That man descends from our noble race- The very idea is a disgrace. No monkey ever deserted his wife, Starved her babies and ruined her […]

Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. (Obi-Wan Kenobi)

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.