Quotes About Perspective

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

People say, 'When are you going to do serious stuff?' I look at them as though they were crazy. My serious stuff is my comedy. That's how I make my points.

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

If we go and see hundreds of different market resources, you are seeing hundreds of different points of view, and once in a while, my experience is, you will come across one or two that are just outstanding, and you never would have thought of them.

A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.