Quotes About Perspective

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

We won't make a drama out of a crisis.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's MasterCard.

I always take life with a grain of salt. . . plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila.

If you think something small can't make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

There's a thin line between talking to yourself and arguing with an idiot.

I don't even enjoy football, at least professional football, anymore because I'm breaking the game down constantly. You're sitting there watching the plays, and you're talking mental reps on what would I have done here against this coverage or this leverage, this, that. It is what it is.

For almost 15 years, professional football is about yourself: How can I improve? How can I make myself better? Before winning a game was the short-term reward that meant everything. Now, I can look at the bigger picture.

I see it like, I've been working really hard for a long time, and I've accomplished a lot of what I've wanted to professionally. I've been really blessed, and that's all I look at.

I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.

We're in no way crime journalists or professionals really.

One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

I would look at my profile and be like, 'Look at this girl! She has, like, the most perfect life!' and I would feel so guilty for not feeling blessed all the time.

Profiles aren't journalism.

Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile and you look at my profile, I'm the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein's the one percent. She appeals to one percent.

I'm able to take myself out of the celebrity bubble and the profile that I'm at, and look at what black people are going through around the country.

I don't think 'Profit' is devoid of morality. He's just on a different plane than the rest of us.