The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

No perspective, no perception.
New perspective, new perception.

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

Are you really a doctor?” I asked.
“Some people say that.”
“Why?”
“Because I went to medical school.”
“Did you not finish?” I asked hesitantly.
“I finished.”
“So…?”
“So sometimes I work as a doctor.”
“So doesn’t that make you a doctor?”
“I guess, but I also worked as a baker, construction worker, and a bunch of other things. Either way I just prefer being known as Jack. I mean Dr. Baker Jack Hammer Jack, would be entertaining, but I think also a little weird.

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?