Quotes About Perspective

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.

For the most part, romance is written in third person, and it's written in multiple points of view, so you're in the hero's head, and you're in the heroine's head. I've always said that I'm more of a narrator than a creator.

I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

I encourage people and their different points of view.

I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close, because we're doing it every day, I think that the actor's point of view is sometimes too close to what the material actually is.

An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels - from Millennials starting their careers... to women at the highest levels of leadership... to my own wife and daughter.

'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very complex narrative from all these different points of view.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

You have to understand how lucky I feel. I was on 'Saturday. Night. Live.' I played with the Clash! On what planet would I look at anything in my life in any less-than-stellar way?

I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

I was home-schooled my entire life and never been in a classroom.

I would rather hang out with a cleaner than a celebrity.

I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

As I get older, I have a clearer sense of what's important to me.

As I get older I'm seeing the game clearer.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.