Quotes About Perspective

I've been to three Olympics, and they're cool and everything, but I feel like people just aren't grateful for what we have and the opportunities we have.

It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that's great, but no one cares.

You think we got it bad in Omaha, or in any city in the United States, and then you go to a different country and you see how bad they got it. You give those people a balloon and they'll cherish it like you gave them a chunk of gold.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

If I was able to be omniscient and look at my career objectively, I'd be very happy.

Some people think that your life changes for the worse when you become a father, but on the contrary, when my daughter was born, she brought light and joy into my life.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

I can't take one day for granted. That's usually how I think.

One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.