Quotes About Perspective

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.