Quotes About Perspective

It's simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what's going on.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.

For me, I think there is no absolute standard on masculinity.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

Beauty has no set standard. It is honestly in diversity.

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

The thing that actually makes a guy settle down is when a woman comes along who has a different set of standards than the other women he's met. Then she immediately becomes unique.

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.