Quotes About Perspective

I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.

It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different.

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother.

If I die and am worth $50 million as opposed to $3 billion, it is really not important.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

I'm not opposed to talking about airline food.

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

In some ways, making documentaries is like being a journalist. You interview people and then use the bits you want to use as opposed to the bits they want you to use.

There's often a big difference between business considerations as opposed to the business of the heart.