Quotes About Perspective

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

It's pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they didn't print enough, and so with these kinds of people, it is like running to the pope. What do you want to tell them?

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

Funny enough, apart from when I was at school, I've always gone out with younger men - I was even married briefly to one prior to Angus.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.

Being a mom makes me prioritize the game of basketball for what it is - a game. For so long I was so addicted to it and it would get me really high or really low. Now I know that once I walk off the court, I can't control that anymore and I have other things I have to focus on and give my attention and love to.

The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.

Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.

I didn't necessarily grow up with country being my first priority as a music listener. I grew up listening to classic rock and Christian music.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.