Quotes About Perspective

The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.

What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.