Quotes About Perspective

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical perspective.

America was once the safest place. I used to ask our people why they were going there. They used to say America is the safest place.

To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time.

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.

From the first time that I went over to China, I think I was around the age of 17, 18, and just going there and seeing that their technology being years ahead of ours in America, it sparked something with me back then.

We in the so called 'Western civilisations' have so much to learn from other cultures, and they would stand to gain so much by learning from ours. We don't have all the answers - far from it... but nor do any other culture or religion.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

Comparing Bollywood and Hollywood is like comparing America's market, roads and economy to ours.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

We never see ourselves as others see us.