Quotes About Perspective

A lot worse things can happen than losing your world title. But I was able to come to terms with it, accept it, be mature about it.

Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective.

If you think you are young, then that is what you will be. I also feel that with age, comes maturity. But if you think that you are old, then that is what you will be.

I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.

That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son.

Everyone around me has maximum respect for my vision.

I thought of myself as a very goal-oriented person. The more I've aged, the more I'm like, well, maybe I'm not that ambitious.

Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.

It took me a while to accept everything, but I am so grateful for the way my parents raised me. It's my life, it's unique, and I think it's so meaningful to me as I get older.

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

I feel some people are not meant to be together but that doesn't mean they are bad.

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.