Quotes About Perspective

I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.

I think there's more to be happy about than sad about on a daily basis.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

I pull my material from daily life.

I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'

When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.

I don't feel like I'm important enough to do a damn biopic, like who would want to see that?

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.