Quotes About Perspective

Winning is different based on your perspective, just like success is different based on your perspective.

I can't consider the Fifth Dimension to be a success story.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

I can remember all the bad games and rubbish shots I've played far more than all my successes. Luckily, as I've got older, I've got better at dealing with that. What's the point of regrets? They don't change anything.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.

If I told my 16-year-old self that, at 34, I'd have no kids and not be in a movie in America, I wouldn't think I was still successful.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Just because you have given five successful films doesn't make you God.

Something that 'Game of Thrones' always does successfully is that action sequences are never just action sequences. There's always a point of view, and you're always identifying with one person or one group of people.

I talked to a brain specialist who told me when you think like someone else for such a long time, your brain actually changes.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.