Quotes About Perspective

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

All those races, all those victories and losses, it's as if they happened to someone else.

When my kids love my work, I feel elated and victorious; it means more to me than an Oscar. And when they are silent, I'm proud that they have a mind and perspective of their own and are courageous enough not to say things just to please me.

History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

If Charlie Sheen is the 21st century figure most closely associated with 'Winning,' it is perhaps time to consider an alternative to victory.

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Ever since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, I've been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don't see the world, or humanity, as I do.

Every time I get into the ring, my perspective is that the other guy is standing between me and a victory.

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.

The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

It's always hard when you're working on a project, and you're seeing it in bits and pieces, whether that be film, television, video games, animation - you only really have perspective of what you're interacting with.

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.

A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.