Quotes About Perspective

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

You give power to issues if you pay a lot of attention to them. The more attention you give them the more power they have. So the most powerful thing you can do is just get on and ignore it.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

Sometimes when I hear people talking about their families, or their relationships with their mothers and fathers, I hear it but it's not something I totally understand.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.

Majority of men are momma's boys. A lot of them do believe that nobody can love them more than their mothers.

I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.

I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.

Everyone gets motivated or inspired by different things.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

Artistes are all motivated differently, with different experiences.