Alternative Perspective Quotes

There is always the other side, always.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

I think people are looking for an alternative because in addition to there being sort of a myopic, lemming - like ants on a sugar cube mentality on this DNS attack story by many in the media, there's just this culture of sameness. Everybody sounds the same.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

We don't like trends. We formed initially because we felt we had something of our own to say. What was happening was lacking in certain aspects - it needed a different point of view, a variant on things, but with the same attack, impact.

Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

I don't view myself as a particularly intelligent people, but I do have one ability that I've demonstrated over and over again, that's helped me see things that other people for whatever reason have not seen. That's that most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. I guess it could be stated that most people only hear the music, not the lyrics of human events.

You may or may not like 'Baaz.' But you will definitely say I have done something different.

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down.

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

But I could be wrong.

Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

I try to examine everything to see if there's another approach.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.

Everyone talks about how depressing Radiohead are. I don't hear it. They've created their own universe and it is dimly lit, but it's not inherently dark.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.