Quotes About Perspective

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

Pressure is a terminology that doesn't align with my life. Where I come from, the pressures are totally different.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

Quarantine has really affected me in terms of thinking about what the rest of the world is going through and what isolation within a small space might be like.

It's so important to see everything through every gaze and the female gaze in terms of sex is not something we have seen much of. Let's reassert that balance!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

At some point, I thought that, as I got older, I'd come to terms with a lot of things. I'd solve some big problems, and eventually I'd become content. It's almost more depressing to think that the older you get, the more your problems multiply.

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.