Quotes About Perspective

Earlier, even I used to think that I would be doing theatre all my life, but as I grew, I understood that it was not practically possible.

Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back and read it as if you're reading it for the first time.

If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

I am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won't get carried away by bigger or lesser critics. It's the same when you get praise. You can't get carried away with that.

Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don't match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can't praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

I was incarcerated for a little while in Baltimore, and my celly was Muslim. I was watching him pray every day, and his outlook on getting out of that situation was a lot more positive than the other dudes that were Muslim in the jail.

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

I think fashion takes itself way too seriously. It's just fashion, people. It's just clothes. It should be frivolous and fun. You're not meant to see it as church and pray to a blouse.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.