Quotes About Perspective

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

You do not always have to play in the Camp Nous and the Old Traffords and with pleasant climates. It's different experiences that you take in... that's also a part of football.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.

When I was dealing with a lot of Iraqis, lies were constant; people constantly lied to you. It's a part of their culture. They wanted to please you so much, they were willing to lie to you to please you.

I'm not miserable; please don't misunderstand me. I have a lovely life.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

People have got their opinions, and you can't please everyone.

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.

I got a little bit pleased with myself. I didn't buy a Rolls-Royce or anything like that but I didn't see my biological family for a while. I was getting a bit self-important and they told me. They dragged me back.

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.