Quotes About Perspective

You're never going to catch me calling myself a hero unless I'm joking.

Nobody has a completely happy life, unless you're completely imbecilic. Life is mostly pretty awful.

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

Our people work more, earn more, spend more. Here they work less, gain less, and spend less, but they are happy! That's what I think. Also, I haven't seen people here drink much, unlike Kerala, where it's almost like bread and coffee for them!

If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.

Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact.

The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

No, you see, unlike some interviewers, I love politics... overall I am not anti-politicians at all. I recognise they are more important than me.

What we do in theatre is unlike film or any other medium. We can never really truly see the work that we made because we're in in.