Quotes About Perspective

God had used a blind man to show him what he couldn't see. That made John smile through his tears.

You had to see what you had instead of what you didn't have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

I used to think that I knew something about poverty. You have not seen poverty until you've seen it in Africa.

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to "genuine" objectivity.

The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in power

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!

Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I'll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.