Quotes About Perspective

Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and inflexible.

I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Reality is an acquired taste.

I don't have necessarily good taste. I have some really good taste and I have some really awful taste. I don't see the difference, because when you use them together they can work.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Before children, it's kind of easy to be solipsistic - you and your wife are in this hermetic little thing, and your own desires, wants, needs, tastes dictate your choices. Then, suddenly, all of that's gone.

We have to get out there and explain that imperfect tastes just as good.

My parents have very different tastes. They exposed me to so many different things. I represent both sides.

For an architect's son, I am remarkably unformed in my architectural tastes.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.