Jim Lehrer Quotes

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

There's no common taste in this world.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

Everyone sees different things.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I just can't help but see things differently.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

One man’s oddball is another man’s square.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

What's perfect for one mom might be the worst idea for another.

Everybody's funny-looking.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Change is always subjective.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.