Quotes About Perspective

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Neanderthals might think differently than we do. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

An important part of my story is that I didn't walk out of Planned Parenthood immediately after witnessing the ultrasound-guided abortion. It is made to appear that way in the film, 'Unplanned,' because they are trying to fit 10 years of my life into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

If Irrfan plans to make a movie on me, I will be the hero of the movie, as I feel that no one better than me.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.