Quotes About Perspective

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

I'm always a bit suspicious of the sort of person who argues by saying 'What would Jesus have said?' They usually mean that they are quite sure Jesus would have agreed with them.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don't know that it's the top priority.

I never planned to be a professional artist - I just want to be a sustainable artist. I guess they're the same thing if you look at them from a different angle.

Two eyes are given for a reason. One eye to always look at the opportunity. The second eye to always keep looking at the challenges. Because if you don't balance both, it's very easy to get carried away one way or the other. And it's when you balance the two that you find the most sustainable model.

I've worked for some amazing leaders, and I've worked for the opposite, and that gave me the perspective of what I knew I never wanted to be, and the perspective of what had lasting, sustainable impact.

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.

I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.