Quotes About Perspective

The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.

One thing, the very first time I got out of the seat, after Resilience was safely in orbit and I looked out the window and saw the Earth from 250 miles up, I will never forget that moment.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

The thing I remember most about space is the view from the spacewalk. When I was inside the space shuttle and looking through the window, you can see the earth and the stars, and it's very beautiful, but it's like looking at an aquarium, sort of. When you go outside and spacewalk, you become a scuba diver.

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.

I spend most flights staring out into that endless cloudscape and watching the planet drift by below. I never understand people who close the window shade. There's magic out there.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.

It really upsets me that the media insists on turning 'Do the Right Thing' or 'Boyz N the Hood' into 'black films.' They are American films. They may open the window on the black experience, but they had things to say to everybody. That's why they were so successful.

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

I've seen tons of pictures. But when I first looked out the window at the Earth, it's hard to describe. There are no words.

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.