Quotes About Perspective

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

We are told to do good math, lead the country, or go abroad and make million. You can't blame anyone. That's the way our children are trained. But what about other things like respecting women and liking your own culture first?

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.

You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.

Me and my family are straight. I am blessed. I am alive, man, and I am healthy, and that is the only thing that matters. Me and my family, everybody else, it really doesn't matter because why do you care about somebody talking negative about you if they don't know you?

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

What I've learned is that you forget that it's not only a blessing to play this game, but it's an opportunity.

It's actually a blessing to be able to walk off that field win, lose or draw. If you walk off that field healthy, that's the important thing.

To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.

I feel every day is a blessing because as I never expected to be where I am.

I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.

Listen, I can't judge anybody for what blessings they have in their lives.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind.

We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.

Should I tell you one thing, I am blind from my right eye. I see only from my left eye. The one you see is someone else's eye which was donated to me after his death. If I close my left eye, I can see no one.

That's what you gonna get with me: the dark aspects of life. Of course, you've got to have some type of light in there, but if it was all light, you'd be blinded. You've got to balance them out.

Sometimes you get blinded by results rather than the process.