Quotes About Perspective

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

Because when you are something people don't know quite how to define, it means you get more of an opportunity to define yourself to bring something new to the table, to bring a new view on things.

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

You never know how you view things as time passes.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

If you are educated in English-medium schools, you get a better view of the world, develop more liberal values, have more gender sensitivity and become more forward looking. But you pay a price because you don't know your own language.