Robin Hobb Quotes

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Unless someone has walked in your shoes, you really can't judge. Everyone needs to make the best choice for their life.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

I too was a player for many years, I realise there are moments when we all see things differently and cannot judge how someone else thinks.

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Moral: It all depends.

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Evil is a point of view.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.