Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.

Everyone has a different path and journey.

Each song takes a different path through a different headspace.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

There were two paths I was on: pre- and post-meeting my wife. I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't have headshots until I met her.

Ain't nothing wrong with college, but I just feel like everyone's paths are different.

All our paths are different.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

The research indicates that when we women invest, we women do tend to be more patient, take a longer-term perspective and as a result of it, tend to be better investors than men. But the messages we get are that investing is sort of 'the guys' world.'

I have seen the healthcare system from many angles, including as a patient.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit bigoted or racist, but then I moved away, came to London, my eyes were opened and I saw the world.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

My dad played my dad in 'Patriots Day' and that's why he thinks that's a good movie.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.