Quotes About Perspective

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.

I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

So many people want to die when all they need is to start living.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

Inspiration is everywhere.

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.