Quotes About Perspective

Who would I be if I complained about having a father that provided for me? Who would I be if I was complaining about having a father who loved me? That would make me a real jerk.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

History provides no precise guidelines.

Playing on the field is different from providing inputs sitting in the dugout.

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.

Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative - satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have to have otherwise.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

When we judge, we are always in a psychic space which is circular.

To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

I call myself 'Christ-leaning,' but that's primarily psychological.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

I don't believe in psychology.

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.