Quotes About Perspective

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

We have a lot of people who are Republicans, a lot of people who are Democrats, and it's not just because of business reasons.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

There is a lot of opportunity in all of this stuff [like healthcare business]. I don't know why everybody is focused on the negatives.