Quotes About Perspective

When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

In the scheme of life, being moved aside from a job, however much you love it, is a small thing.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

I played a lot of sport and I had a lot of different friends at different sorts of schools. So I was aware of what school life could be like, or maybe what it should be like. What it was like for some people.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Not a big sci-fi guy.

If someone said to me, 10 years ago, that I'd be spending effectively my retirement years in sci-fi and fantasy, I'd have said, 'Well, don't be ridiculous.'

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

I was never a Trekkie, nor a science fiction guy.

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

I used to care more about the score than I do now.

I've never been a scorer in my life.

I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores.

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.