Quotes About Perspective

Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.

I completely understand how temporary fame is, and I keep my sanity at all times.

Basketball's just something temporary that we do and we're blessed to do, but life is way more precious than this ball that we play.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

I was never tempted by the Premier League. It's simply a personal opinion.

Whenever I am tempted to get stressed out about the spotlight, I remind myself that one day I will be long forgotten, and that I will miss it.

It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.'

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

It doesn't matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I'm not the same person as when I was 15 and I might not be the same person in ten years.