Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see them 360.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

All you can write is what you see.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.