Quotes About Perspective

I'm just trying to look at everything as positive as I can to keep me motivated.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

In the Bible, there is absolutely no motivation for Judas, other than that he is sort of a 100 percent figure of evil. And it seemed to me that that was probably not the case.

I truly believe motivation is internal, but there are so many things that happen externally, and it's hard to not pick that up as motivation.

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.

I think it's all about the music you listen to along the way. For me, my parents always played Motown music and The Beatles, so I was drawn to the soul.

The vision of the left, and I think many conservatives underestimate this, is really a more attractive vision in itself. The only reason for not believing in it is, it doesn't work. If the world were the way the left conceives it to be, it would be a better world than the way the right conceives it to be. It just happens that the world is not that way.

Among the many preconceptions that cannot be subjected to any empirical test because they are so subjective is the notion that third-party observers know better what is good for people than those people know themselves.

Often it is those who are most critical of a Eurocentric view of the world who are most Eurocentric when it comes to the evils and shortcomings of the human race.

As Will Rogers said, everybody is ignorant, but just about different things.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.

If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

The person who kills himself sees suicide as a solution. If the observer views it as a problem, he precludes understanding the suicide just as surely as he would preclude understanding a Japanese speaker if he assumed that he is hearing garbled English.

Birçok insan hastad?r. Fakat yaln?zca psikanalistler bunu gurur duyulacak bir ÅŸey olarak görür.

As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.

he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Every moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.

Only the dead know Brooklyn.