Others' Perspective Quotes

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

I always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand.

I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.

I can't see myself as others see me.

You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes.

If you're too lucky, it can be very easy to lack the ability to believe that other people's lived experience is real when it doesn't match up with yours.