Quotes About Perspective

I like to take walks and getting out and seeing things. These experiences are so irreplaceable and give you a whole different perspective on the greater context that you're in. If I didn't try to take advantage of that, I'd be missing out on a lot of really interesting things.

But when we're helping children understand how people from different walks of life can coexist, prioritizing common ground too often obscures or erases uncommon experiences.

I speak to more people across different walks of life, I would bet than most people.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

To watch a game from the TV, it's very different from the bench.

I don't buy it is all about the rings because there are a lot of guys that got rings that can't play a lick. They happened to be on the bench with some great players, so I don't buy into that totally.

You can bend reality, but you cannot break it.

I don't see the benefit in giving yourself a belief system that allows you to judge other people.

For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.

I learned way more in four years at Sprig than four years at Udemy or UC Berkeley.

Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

One thing I learned is that I don't want to be in an all-girl band again. Besides, most of my friends are guys, anyway.

It actually was 'RuPaul's Best Friend Race' for me.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

I'm often asked what it was like to have a famous mother. I always answer that I really don't know. I knew her first as my mother, and then as my best friend. Only after that did I understand that she was an actress, and with time that she was truly an exceptional actress.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

Believe it or not, the best way to put somebody at ease or bring them to a level of trust is to know as much if not more about them than they know about themselves or the organization to which they belong.