James Van Der Beek Quotes

What we see changes who we are.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had less exposure to as a young man. I've interacted with more poor people, more minorities and more sexual minorities. As you get more people from different backgrounds involved in your life, you get a broader perspective and you're less cavalier about your opinions.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.