Quotes About Perspective

For me, becoming a father at 50-plus was another challenge, but then, I am neither the first one, nor the last in this category.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

I wanted to take the seriousness out of everything a little bit, because it kind of fits my style.

There are 50 people fitter than me between the top 70 to 150 in the world. There are some players not as fit as me inside the top 10 in the world. Will fitness help them? I don't think so.

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life.

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

The one thing I didn't want to do was a show about the White House. I was too close to it.

I love having a front-row seat on history, whether that's a White House briefing room or the campaign trail.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.