Daniel Handler Quotes

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

The average student of any historical period invariably reads into his interpretation the intellectual, moral and social atmosphere that lies nearest to him. He cannot strip away the intervening time-content between himself and the period in question. It is the most difficult of all exercises of the imagination, and to most men, indeed, impossible, to realize that the same words, names, customs and institutions connote totally different actualities in different stages of historic evolution. People fail to conjure up the altered perspective, and the unfamiliar background on which men lived, thought and felt in another age.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

When you're on the inside, there's no other perspective but what you see on the inside. When you're on the outside, you get to look at things a little differently: how you can help, how you can fit in, how you can do certain things differently.

Look, I had a great experience in the booth. I saw a different perspective.

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Things always look different from higher up.

Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh.

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.