Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll act differently. Are they the same person? Sure, but do they act different? Yeah.

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global.

But we're not this one stupid thing we said three years ago, or ten years ago, or even last week. We seem to judge people as if they are.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

I'm incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view. In the end, I always remember who I'm an advocate for.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Growing up, many of us are taught to place limits on what we can accomplish while on earth. We tend to think of things in binary form: either as possible or, more frequently, impossible.

People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.

With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

I tend to look at the silver lining of things.

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.