Perspective Quotes

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.

I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible.

I think we come at it from somewhat different perspectives. You know, Donald [Trump] was very fortunate in his life, and that's all to his benefit.

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

We all have different perspectives but we tend not to disagree with each other very often in terms of where we want to get or where we want to be. So it's been amazing working with my brothers.

As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.

Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.

Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

The more able we are to keep guns out the hand so criminals and spouse abusers all - the better. So the more information we have the better for law enforcement perspective.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.

I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.

That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.

I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.