Quotes About Perspective

The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one's perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country's first celebrity politicians.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

Pressure's what you make of it.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

There's peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

I thought I should have a Rolls, for prestige, so I ordered one. But when it came, I realized that I didn't really need it.

The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be.

I think there's a presumption of a climate emergency which I don't think there is. I think there's a climate problem, I don't think there's an emergency.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.