Quotes About Perspective

all these years I have looked through your limbs to the river below and the roofs and the night and you were the way I saw the world

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

and I was looking up out of a time of late blessings

A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.

The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.

I do not think I am fond, Father, Of the way in which always before he listens He prepares himself by listening. It is Unequal, Father, like the reason For which the wheel turns, though there is no wheel.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Tell me what you see vanishing and I will tell you who you are

As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.