Quotes About Perspective

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

Always be sure to never speak in absolutes.

Optimists have more fun, milord," Yorick reminded him. "Yeah, because pessimists have made things safe for 'em.

One of the regular temptations seducing historians and their audience is to imagine knowledge of the past

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there?

A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.

Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show -- listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.

It was good to see her laugh. Even if it was at me.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it.

The Enemy invites us to focus on ourselves, while genuine worship requires us to focus on God.

We tend to assume linearity: that tomorrow will be like yesterday; that next week will resemble last week; next year be like last year, and so on. Linear extrapolations, however, can be blinders.

From a personal standpoint, in my fifty years of serious study of the Bible, obviously I have had to revise my own perspectives on a number of occasions. However

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

When people ask me how old I am, I tell them I'm 39–with 25 years of experience.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.