Quotes About Perspective

I've learned that you don't want to expect anything or feel that you're owed anything.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.

As I've gotten older, I know I race less, but I as an owner I have the same anxiety and the same frustration and energy for it.

We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

Who has ownership over stories these days?

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.

I believe that life offers you packages. It doesn't offer you good and bad, otherwise you will choose the good and you will leave the bad. It offers you packages and every package has some good and some bad.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.