Quotes About Perspective

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it differently when it doesn't work out.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.