Aidan Chambers Quotes

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

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.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.

It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

All progression is in the relative world.

Bill Sofield has the ability to understand the architecture of a space and how to utilize it in the most beautiful way. He can create completely different styles for his clients based on who they are and what their taste is. Our efforts have always been collaborative, and I value what he brings to the table architecturally and aesthetically.

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.