#perspective

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#eternity

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#care #choice #empty #full #glass

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending that things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#life-lessons #perspective #life

Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#going #good #good time #i #live

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#behave #definition #done #down #drops

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behavior #being #biased #exclusively #how

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team. ↗

— Steve Case

#align #even #great #great team #impact

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities. ↗

— Steve Case

#also #different #different people #different personalities #different perspectives

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. ↗

— Hope Davis

#american #american life #become #century #easy