Perspective Difference Quotes

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

What is sudden for one person may not be sudden at all for another; eclipses of the sun occur “suddenly” for the ignorant but by no means for the astronomer. The same thing applies to revolutions: those political “catastrophes” happen “suddenly” for the ignorant and, the great majority of self-satisfied philistines, but very often they are by no means sudden for the man who understands the social phenomena surrounding him.

My parents saw certain things differently than other people.

We see ourselves as yesterday and today. Heavenly Father sees us as forever.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.

It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.