Quotes About Perspective

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.

If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

I always feel like people misunderstand the difference between an Asian story and an Asian-American story. That's completely different, too. I have friends who grew up in Asia, and our experiences are so different. Even though we might look the same, I feel like being Asian and then being Asian-American is completely different.

It doesn't really bother me if people misunderstand me. It's cool, but you can't do anything about it.

So many great ideas come out of a misunderstanding.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

I know what it is to be misunderstood.

There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it.

You can say that I endorse Mitt Romney, but that's not just because I'm a white man. We all have things which we're for and ideas which we support.

When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.

People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to be black or Asian in America and not necessarily knowing what it's like, that's when everything gets mixed up.

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

The way people grow up, it shapes the way they think and the way they do certain things. I grew up with a mixed population, white, Hispanic and black. I feel all people are equal.