Quotes About Perspective

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

It's the media who love statistics.

Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.

I don't really care about statistics from other attackers.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

Growing up, I've always been the baby. I'm the younger of two girls in my family, my friends are always older than I am, and I'm a rather small person in stature as well.

It's great to be compared to someone of the stature of Gareth Bale, but I'm happy to be Ryan Sessegnon.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

The world itself is so full of changes - of negotiations, changes of position, seeing things one way, then another, gauging responses, status changes that can happen in an instant.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.

I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.

Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

Stay big in your work and small in your life.

If I stay negative in negative energy, that's what's gonna come back.