Quotes About Perspective

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won't work.

There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

I always wanted to eat with a Negro," Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman," Lula said. "So I guess this works out good.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.

When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.