Quotes About Perspective

I'm the black sheep in a family of cops. I understand how difficult the job is.

I've had negative experiences with cops. I've had positive experiences with cops.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

I've learnt that you never know what is around the corner, so it's best to enjoy the ride.

I never thought I would be married at 23, but that's the fun thing about life - you don't know what is waiting for you at the next corner.

I've fully turned a corner in terms of thinking about my own voice. I think I have a pretty cool voice, just sonically.

In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war.

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

If you already think you are correct and there's nothing else you can learn in life, then I think you are in trouble.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes.

The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

People can say what they want. It is the people inside the camp who count to me. The people around me.

I've done more than 65 films. I don't count them anymore. The first 10 you count and then you stop.

I know a lot of athletes, they want to play until their 45 or 50 or whatever, some athletes claim, but count me out on that.

We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And I'll go with that. Because life is not something to be run down like a counter nor counted as it runs you down. It is an experience, and we can choose to live it as we will.