Quotes About Perspective

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

There is no point in taking yourself too seriously.

Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.

None of us are going to get younger, there's no point in trying to chase that dream because it won't happen.

I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

Instead of cribbing that good work is not coming my way, I look at the positive side where I see no pressure from my parents to work for the sake of it.

In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that. People were always curious about what I had to say.

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

Visiting other places changes your perspective. It helps you understand that no matter where you are, or what country you're in, people are pretty much the same everywhere.

The bee doesn't care about me, or what I just did to her," I said. "She was just trying to protect herself. Now that the threat is gone, she doesn't hold a grudge.

He'd simply been around long enough to know that fairy tales seldom came true

No, she reminded herself, her childhood hadn't defined her, or had anything to do with the real reason..

Art and photography allowed for the communication of new ideas, often in ways that words did not.

Per i romantici questa è una storia d'amore; i cinici la definirebbero una tragedia. Nella mia mente è un po' tutt'e due le cose, e comunque si voglia interpretarne la fine, non cambia il fatto che ha coinvolto una grande parte della mia esistenza.

There was, after all, more to life than work, and I realized I no longer wanted to be the person I'd recently become. I wanted to embrace those things that were important to me and worry less about the things that were beyond my control.

ella se quedó impresionada por la constatación de que, a veces, las cosas más sencillas y normales podían convertirse en acontecimientos extraordinarios, simplemente si las llevaban a cabo las personas adecuadas.

While the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of it are malleable.

no es necesario que nuestras opiniones, nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos (todo aquello que experimentamos) nos defina para siempre. Supongo