Quotes About Perspective

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Life is a mirror and you get back what you give out.

I had some moments in my career where I'd walk on the court, and I look around and feel, 'Oh, I'm the best one out here.' But then you go on another court, and you could be the worst player out there.

There isn't just one black experience out here.

Eurocentric women are beautiful, but they are not the only ones out here that exist.

I'm a conservative dude from the Midwest. I went crazy out here in LA.

I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

Often, just explicitly acknowledging how the other side must see things can help them open up to see your side and can help both parties achieve a fair and constructive outcome.

A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.

While the things that motivate us differ greatly from one person to the next, the outcomes do not.

Diversity is critical to our business outcomes.

Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.

I'm not one of those people to outgrow my initial blessings.

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

Everybody's got an opinion, and I was just lucky enough to have an outlet for mine.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.

I would not go so far as to say that we are completely changing our outlook.