Quotes About Perspective

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.

When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?