Quotes About Perspective

When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.

People often look at the past through the rose-tinted glass, but if you go back to 'Top Gear' 2000/2002 the chemistry wasn't there, it took time to grow.

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

Americans always see China through the looking glass, and I think it's about time - with technology and of the growing economic relationship between these two countries - I think it's natural and better for all of us to have a better understanding of each other.

Take everything that's bad in your life and look at the positive within it. Don't ever see your glass as half-empty.

I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.

Sometimes I feel my glass is a bit half empty and I am a bit Eeyore-ish.

I'm not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

I think if you go out with too hard a conservation message, then you convince people that it's all doom and gloom and nothing can be done.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.

I absolutely love and respect the past, but I'm not a 'glory days' guy. I love where we've been and love where I'm at and going.

I always thought 'Into The Gloss' would be successful, but I didn't really know what my definition of success was.

One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.

When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.

I'd love for it to go away and for people not to see NXT as a downgrade. I definitely don't think it is.

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.