Quotes About Perspective

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.