Quotes About Perspective

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

Activism is wasteful.

If you were really a feminist, you'd support housewives. You'd see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting their time!

One of the nice things about becoming a stand-up, one of the great things about becoming a stand-up, is you realise you haven't been wasting all those years you thought you'd been wasting.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.

The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don't watch - I don't watch myself.' I don't look at it. I don't.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

I'm not guided by what Human Rights Watch says.

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

All generations think the present moment is the greatest but also have this fascination with before their time. I do the same thing. I see old British movies. I'm like, 'Man, I would love to be in London at that time.' But then I wouldn't be able to watch 'The Walking Dead,' I wouldn't have cable, and my pizza options would be limited.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

If you go back and watch the original 'V,' you're like, 'Oh, I thought this was great. It kind of looks really cheesy.'

You can't just watch people type all day, and you can't really show screenshots of code and make it interesting in any way.

If you could play in the Olympics or sit on your couch and watch at home, what would you do? It was that simple. This is basketball; it's not war.

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

I've never run with the bulls. I prefer to watch from the safety of a balcony.

Gotta watch out for directors.

I've been in the industry for 17 years. I am over that phase of wanting my first watch, car etc.

I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.