Quotes About Perspective

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Language usage always has a political context.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.

I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I used to think I was ugly because I was the baby.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

The older I get the better I used to be!

I don't know if this is because I'm a bit too old, but it is true that I'm getting insensible about romance recently. I'm very used to being alone now, and I don't think that's not half bad.

They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.