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Quotes About Perspective

I am not the sort of person who will wake up and go and buy myself a Ferrari.
~ Simon Mignolet
When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.
~ Joe Torre
I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
~ Jack Bruce
We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.
~ Simon Pegg
I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'
~ David Brock
I miss my kids sometimes and that can get me down when I've been away working, but then I wake up and recognize how incredibly lucky I am. Spending time being down is less time out there achieving and enjoying.
~ Sean Combs
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
~ Tori Amos
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
~ Etgar Keret
There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.
~ Joshua Michael Stern
I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.
~ Jon Anderson
Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.
~ Tony Benn
You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things - but those things aren't major. What's major is that you are good at your craft.
~ Judith Jamison
I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.
~ Jim Crace
I don't really wake up in the morning and say, 'Ohmigod, I'm a Palestinian in a Jewish state.' I wake up in the morning and say, 'Ohmigod, I have to make sandwiches for my kids.'
~ Sayed Kashua
I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'
~ Melissa Etheridge
My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
~ Corbin Bernsen
Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'
~ Moby
I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.
~ Jessica Williams
I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.
~ Eduardo Galeano
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
~ Rene Magritte
Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.
~ Aidan Gillen
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
~ John Byrne
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.
~ Howard Jacobson
It's been great to see broadcasters waking up to the fact that women do offer a different perspective.
~ Isa Guha