Quotes About Perspective

One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

I am not suggesting you shouldn't work hard, but I am suggesting that if you are defining your value by the chase—by your ambition, your work, and your achievement—then you are simply chasing after the wind, and ultimately, it is meaningless.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

Everyone's mortality is in the lens now and it's not necessarily a telephoto shot.

Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.

Stop worrying about your credits and consider enjoying your day. You die at the end.

A lot of guys write books that are nothing but a compendium of women they've had sex with. Those guys are vapid assholes. Yet there are times when getting laid can pull your ego and confidence up from the ashes, especially when you are young and honestly feel out of your league. It's meaningless in the long run but at the time it works.

All people are natural story-tellers. We tell a story every time we tell someone what we did that day or share an opinion of our favorite movie. If you want to be a story-teller, good job, you already are one!

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

Emma has just rung and sarcastically asked me if I was ever planning on asking her out again. After fighting back my initial reaction to answer 'only if you're going to put out this time,' I told her that, in these days of equality, it was her turn to ask me. Which, amazingly enough, she did.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.