Quotes About Perspective

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

People think it's easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it's incredibly hard work. It's much easier to be hopeful.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.