Quotes About Perspective

Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

Christmas is not only where you find it

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.