Quotes About Perspective

think sometimes it takes a life-changing event to make us really see the way we're living based on the choices we've made.

True,'' Ida Belle said, ''but despite all of that, he's still interested. I may be an old maid, but I know what male interest looks like.'' Gertie waved a hand at her. ''Walter slipping you a free pack of toilet paper with your grocery order hardly qualifies as the ultimate in male interest. But despite Ida Belles overblown description of her knowledge of how men think, I think she's right this time

No matter what happens to someone, at that exact moment, something that could be construed as worse is happening to someone else. That doesn't lessen our own heartache. It doesn't diminish the fact that right then, you're dealing with one of the worst things that's ever happened to you.

I mean, not when he was actually dead but from before, you know, when he wasn't dead?" "I get it.

Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once.

I've been doing the hotel accounting long enough to know that two and two equals whatever you want it to be. It's simply a matter of perception and misdirection.

I don't doubt that at some point I'll be as happy as I was before, but I don't think I'll ever be the same, if that makes sense.

The problem with society is that most people are too comfortable in their own lives to even try to imagine the difficulty of someone

Gertie frowned. "Why do you always have to be Debbie Downer?" Ida Belle shook her head. "I'm Reality Rita.

If you live to a certain age, you'll always have regrets. Most of them will be selfish.

Breaking hips is for old people," Gertie said. "I have decided that I am middle-aged." "Ha!" Ida Belle said. "Middle-aged for what, a tortoise?

Psychiatrists do not nag. We're licensed to tell you the best way to live your life. You people just refuse to listen.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong;

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Minimalism can help you find contentment and satisfaction and finally put meaning into your life. Just removing unnecessary things that do not bring any value to you will essentially open the door to a brand new perspective on living.

Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano ' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.