Quotes About Perspective

We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice.

The next time you say 'Life isn't fair' remember that 40% of the world lives on less than $2/day and does not eat every day. How does your 'not fair' compare to theirs? - Tom Cunningham

Do not believe everything you think or that you believe.

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

When I went to college, it didn't even occur to me that I should be in a sorority at all. I went to school in New York City, where you don't need to be in a sorority to go to a party!

When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me.

What seems obvious to one person wouldn't occur to another. Your perspective is hard coded into the work that you create.

I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred.

I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.