Quotes About Perspective

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.

Nothing clears my head and puts things in perspective quite like a long, hard run.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

When I came here in 2008, nobody knew who I was. I didn't know who I was. I was just enjoying the moment and I won. So, now, coming back being the person I am with all the accomplishments, it kind of puts things in perspective.

When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.

I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.

There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

Being a father now puts life in perspective. My whole life it's all been about trying to win. And now I'm trying to make a better life for my son than I've had.

Being 40 and having three kids puts lots of things in perspective and helps me stay grounded.

There's a lot of things in my life that are more important I have to think about than what someone puts in the newspaper, or says on TV.

We were approached by Alison Ellwood about the idea of doing a documentary. At first, we were a bit nervous because we didn't want it come across as a salacious 'Behind The Music' kind of thing. Alison did such a great job. It really puts perspective on things.

Having a kid, it really puts a lot of things in perspective, and really kind of shows you what love is, and what it should be and what impact it should have on your life.

Family puts things in perspective.

You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.

After being temporarily paralyzed, it puts a lot of things in perspective.

If you're happy in a relationship it puts everything into perspective really.

No one cares what I think about a 6-foot putt. They care what Ian Baker-Finch thinks.

I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.

Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.