Quotes About Perspective

We do not always need to think in terms of business or profit.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

It would be troubling if everything is determined by whether profits will be made within five to six years.

I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

My parents were divorced when I was 11, and it made such a profound impression on my life that I suppose I thought that by not getting married, you could avoid your life being carved in two.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it's me!

We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

Our plan for Passyunk Productions is to make an impact in the film & tv world by leveraging our collective resources, telling great stories and creating smart programming told from a unique perspective.

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

I've learned to never take anything for granted and that people are all works in progress. Some people are just actively working on progressing, and some aren't.

We have the luxury in the West of being able to say, 'Yeah, absolutely, we're progressive, we've moved forward with the gay community.' We haven't in a lot of other countries. My people from Pakistan - I know we haven't moved forward.