Quotes About Perspective

The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

I've always been the point guard, always been the floor general out there, and it's helped me see things I didn't previously see on offense from a shooting guard standpoint.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

Growing up, I was the odd bird. My interest in mathematics, my interest in the world, how I approach things from a scientific standpoint. You're always going to be looked at as a different bird.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.

Sam Bradford was one of the most humble and grounded players I've ever been around; he got it. But I even told him, what makes you think those fans in the stands are wearing No.14 for you? Who says it's not an old Josh Heupel jersey?

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

I try to put myself in the position of the fan and the fan in my position. So to be somebody in the stands and be just like everyone else as opposed to having a press pass around my neck is pretty fun.

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.

Everyone says I should really savour the last year, play as much as possible, really soak everything in. I'd most like to sit on the bench, or, even better, in the stands.

For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.

I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in one way, and then, when you get the opportunity to shoot it, you almost have to reframe how you go about it and rethink the entire process.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Women are smarter than men because they listen.