Quotes About Perspective

When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.

People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.

Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job that will support you in the style to which you have been accustomed.

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

I have a bigger, peaceful view of life than aggressively breaking down other people.

I feel like all artists have to come to L.A. at least once because it's just beautiful. It's peaceful.

We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it's normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you.

My older son, when things were at the peak of attention, comes up to me and says: 'Mom, I know people are saying you're doing stuff that's cool. But I listened, and all you did was talk. It was pretty boring.' Thanks for that.

Even when I was at the peak of my career, I was never in the race to be number one.

In terms of experience, I am a much more evolved person than I was at my peak as a star.

If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.