Quotes About Perspective

Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. However, I would not, by word or deed, attempt to deprive another of the consolation it affords. It is simply not for me. Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn is glory enough for me.

Funny thing, he said sitting in Zeke's kitchen with his wife, things dat happened long time uhgo used to seem way off, but now it all seems lak it wuz yistiddy. You think it's dead but de past ain't stopped breathin' yet.

Indians don't know much uh nothin', tuh tell de truth. Else dey'd own dis country still.

Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth? Couldn't tell you to save my life. Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world. De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason. Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there. Well then, what was they put here for? To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

An experience abroad really enriches you.

Working abroad made me better.

I think that's the beauty of living in America, right? We all get our own opinion, and no one opinion is absolute.

Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.

Marriage is absolutely not something I'm scared of, but it isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

If somebody gives you accolades, that's nice to hear but it's not the end-all, be-all for me.

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I share my personal experiences of what is right according to me in a particular situation.

What is right and what is wrong keeps changing according to time.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.