Quotes About Perspective

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.

When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

I don't feel like material things validate me in any way.

Material things don't matter.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

I'm really not a materialistic person.

I'm not a very materialistic person.

I get it everywhere, 'Look at the math teacher. Look at the science teacher.' I get it everywhere I go, which I can kind of enjoy.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

What matters to everybody else don't matter to me.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

I know I'm only 24, but I know in my head already I am mature, because I've got the right mental side of it.