Norton Juster Quotes

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

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

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

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

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

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.