Quotes About Perspective

Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.

It's an incredible privilege to be the England manager, but when you sit and think about the people who have got to this point before, people I hugely respect and admire... it's difficult to put it into perspective, really.

You want to find the balance of acknowledging privilege and acknowledging the disadvantages that you have.

I know that I come from a position of privilege and that my impact on the environment is much bigger than lots of other people who can't consume in the way that I have been able to.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

I never really realized how privileged I was in the way I grew up.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

I came from a privileged background, which I am entirely grateful for, but it played a part in my feeling that I couldn't complain about my own emotions.

I didn't grow up overly privileged.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

I want my kids to go and see the world and understand they are privileged, but it doesn't mean they don't have the right to speak up and see what is happening.

Many books that tell you how to achieve come from a privileged position. If you can't see yourself in the advice, how can you use it?

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.

I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer.