Quotes About Perspective

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.

Human beings understand too much.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.