Quotes About Perspective

Being lieutenant governor is sort of like being invited into everyone's living room, and you just get an understanding of the state.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.

A thoughtful piece of criticism by somebody who understands the context of what you are doing is a tremendous gift and honor to read, even if they don't completely embrace your work.

As much as a man would like to believe that he understands women, there is simply that much that he can write from their point of view or really understand them.

I was very heartened by Rupert Murdoch's passionate interest in immigration reform. He is an immigrant himself. He understands from a business perspective how important immigration reform would be to our economy.

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.

Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.

At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches.

If you are famous, you should find someone who understands your profession but doesn't do it.