Quotes About Perspective

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each experiences something different, and each sees his own picture.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Mentally, you can't expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.

If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

I never really liked kids before, and kind of hated them. I just didn't like them. I don't know why. All that has changed ever since my daughter was born, and I have started loving kids now.

When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.