Quotes About Perspective

If you close one eye and imagine a bright light constantly in front of the other eye, your vision is compromised. You can only see about 30 percent of what you should be able to see.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

I can't work a computer.

If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

I like the extras in life. Concentrating on serious things doesn't mean you can't also enjoy the lighter ones.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

I don't believe life begins at conception.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Same sex marriage, it's not a big concern to me.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

A lot of what we sing concerns the Brazilian way of life. The stuff I write is reality, everything I see. That's the stuff I want to sing about.

When I think about it, 20 years really seems like a blink of an eye sometimes. I wish I would have made a more concerted effort to enjoy things along the way.

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.