Perception Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image “It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Perception Point of view Writing
Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you. — Tom King Copy Share Image
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of. — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing.… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Its not of significance whether people say bad or good words about you, your own judgment is what really matters. — Barmaki Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to one another's significance. That was a small lesson I learned on the journey. What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series of notes-- then you should never have heard him at all. He was never recorded. He stayed away while others moved into wax history,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and organize outward stimuli within the narrow range necessary for physical survival within our environment, it does not necessarily tell us very much about the nature of that environment. People, in other words, have little access to… — Cruce Stark Copy Share
There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share
We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is one of the most racist countries on earth, and it has proven it during several of the genocides that have taken place here. But there is no perception, no clue, and no understanding of what racism… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been… — Kyle Cooper Copy Share Image
