Quotes About Perspective

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

I have ideas, but those ideas could be wrong. The only way that you would change someone's mind is through dialogue, through productive discussion. If you're not going to have productive discussion, what are you going to do?

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Your profession should give you enjoyment, but it should never be your life.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

I've discovered that being behind the camera is more fascinating. If I had to choose a profession today, it would have been something behind the camera.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

I've been very lucky that I've interviewed so many different people.

There are different games for different people and different expectations. Sometimes you want a great story, and sometimes you don't. I don't believe we should have stories in every single game. Sometimes it doesn't matter.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs, you don't connect with them like you did.