Quotes About Perspective

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

Seeing Earth from here is quite spectacular, and it also makes me realize how important it is that we do all that we can to take care of it.

It seems to me, personally, that the things that are great during Christmastime are magnified. Like everything is that much better. Everything is magical and spectacular. The things that are wrong or sad are just so much more wrong or sad.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

We've gone from one end of the spectrum, where we didn't want children, to the other end where we thought, 'yes, let's try it.'

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

So many people discuss, you know, Israel/Palestine as if it's people on a spectrum.

A lot of my career is mental, and I just have so much perspective from being raised in a city like Detroit and being able to come and live the life that I do now. To see that broad of a spectrum is really helpful for relating to people and feeling them.

It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech.