Quotes About Perspective

No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that,the better. I feel everything has its way of working.

When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty sure mine skipped the Mommy-is-infallible stage entirely.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated; you can elaborate and pinpoint special things a little clearer.

My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

I'm the oldest of three kids and I remember my brother and sister still watching Mr Rogers while I felt too big and too sophisticated to watch it.

Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn't like always being in pain, so they had to go!

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I think if you allow yourself to mope and feel sorry for yourself, it can take years off your life.