Quotes About Perspective

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

There are seasons in life. Don't ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season... Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.