Sylvia Earle Quotes

I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

I look at this game from a different perspective.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

I've been called an extremist.

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

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

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.