Quotes About Perspective

Good writing is like a windowpane.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.