Quotes About Perspective

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

I think the most challenging aspect from my father's perspective was probably getting advertising. He really did pattern 'Ebony' after 'Look' and 'Life' magazines.

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

If you have children and you hear about a child being kidnapped, it makes you really appreciate your own children. It makes you want to spend time with them. But I think anything that shakes you out of your daily patterns in a good thing.

I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

The equation I share with the camera doesn't change whether you place a camera in front of me or a live audience. Just the pay cheques differ. But that doesn't matter to me because I've so much money, I don't even think about it. It's just lying there.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.

I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

Did Amy Winehouse have a hit single from 'Frank?' I love 'Frank,' but people didn't really pay attention to her until 'Back to Black.' So no, I haven't had a hit single. I personally am not bothered about that.

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.

I think there's a danger in letting someone else shape how you're going to approach a player. Every person has somebody who's going to say something negative about them, you know? If you pay attention to all that stuff instead of seeing it for your own eyes, you can miss out on some opportunities.

When you are adopted and you realize that someone gave you a gift, you pay attention to things very clearly. You realize how lucky you are.