Quotes About Perspective

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

Most people probably become more jaded the longer they work in the world of work.

I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't say I love guns. It doesn't work that way for me.

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

You can't control some things in football, but you can control how we view things and how we work.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.