Howard Rheingold Quotes

No one can see your life the way you see it.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

I actually would say when it comes to something like a person's spiritual walk, it's not really about what I think.

What's good for me is certainly not good for other people.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Perception and reality are two different things.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition

I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

I was the world in which I walked.