Quotes About Perspective

Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.

So much is predicated on wins and losses to enjoy life. Every single person loses every week, so it is unrealistic to say you shouldn't enjoy the process. They are unrealistic expectations.

Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

We often know only one version of the story... the version portrayed by the person who wins a war and lives to tell the tale, and the one who loses a war is always remembered as the 'Antagonist' making the victor the 'Protagonist.'

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

I went from Lubbock, Texas, to Berkeley, California. That's enough said.

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.

Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don't know cold until you have been to Boston.

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.