Quotes About Perspective

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.

I've opened throughout most of my career at Worcester. I understand there are guys in the team who have opened for a long time, more than me, with better records than me.

At Sunderland, our kit was five times too big, and we got the local bus to games; in America, I got bags of Nike kit, flew to away games, and played in front of thousands of fans. It opened my eyes to what women's football could - and should - be.

People call me a Modi bhakt now. I used to be a Marx bhakt. I was part of what I now call the intellectual mafia. I used to believe in it, and worked for it. My eyes opened up when I began to travel, and meet different kinds of people.

I'm a firm believer in karma, so getting stabbed was an eye opener.

I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.

Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

When you're opening for someone, there's no pressure.

The thing that's carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

With the dramatic canvas, I found you could still operate with the documentarist's observational eye.

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head.

When you hear 'From the Other Side,' it's like being on an operating table. Suddenly, you're on the ceiling looking down at the doctors who are fighting for you. Are you gonna get a second chance or not?

I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.