Perspective Quotes

‘Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.’ – Sterling K. Brown

‘The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.’ – Chris Pine

‘Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.’ – Doug Baldwin

‘Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.’ – Gregory Peck

‘You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.’ – Jen Sincero

‘Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.’ – Brian Greene

‘Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.’ – Tadashi Yanai

‘Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘You don’t have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.’ – Ursus Wehrli

‘Developing a resiliency, a grit, a level of poise, a composure, a level of perspective, confidence, courage, compassion. These are all things you can work on daily.’ – Aaron Gordon

‘A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.’ – Steve Jobs

‘What is essential in love is what the French call ‘amour fou.’ What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn’t sound as beautiful. It’s a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.’ – Mario Vargas Llosa

‘A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.’ – Allen Klein

‘Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.’ – Alex Zanardi

‘Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘Try to see things differently – It’s the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.’ – Neal Shusterman

‘Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.’ – Jen Lilley

‘I don’t go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people’s approval.’ – Karan Patel

‘From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.’ – Jane Goodall

‘My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.’ – Tate McRae

‘If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what’s in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.’ – Roy Orbison

‘When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.’ – Tara Westover

‘No matter the natural disaster I’ve covered, whether it’s a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.’ – Ginger Zee

‘Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.’ – Taylor Hanson

‘Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.’ – Marco Rubio

‘I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.’ – John Constable

‘It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother’s strong suit.’ – Anne Lamott

‘It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.’ – Dee Hock

‘What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.’ – David Bowie

‘Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.’ – David A. Bednar

‘We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.’ – Jordan Peele

‘Literature is always about bygone times. It’s always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.’ – Amos Oz

‘I’m hard on myself, so I’m working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.’ – Gwyneth Paltrow

‘Laughter can bring a new perspective.’ – Christopher Durang

‘Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, ‘Things don’t look like that!” – David Hockney

‘It’s amazing how, over time, a person’s perspective can be altered.’ – Fred Durst

‘Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I’m small but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Having a thick skin doesn’t mean that you’re hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn’t mean that things don’t bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.’ – Shelley Moore Capito

‘Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I’ve had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I’ve flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.’ – Norman Foster

‘Success is based on your perspective.’ – CM Punk

‘Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.’ – Alan Kay

‘Keep things in perspective. It’s never quite as good as it seems, it’s never quite as bad as it seems.’ – John Calipari

‘Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.’ – Robert Morgan

‘Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.’ – Truman Capote

‘I grew up on the west side of Detroit – 6 mile and Wyoming – so I was really in the ‘hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the ‘hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.’ – Big Sean

‘I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘There are many, many nouns for the act of looking – a glance, a glimpse, a peep – but there’s no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don’t think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don’t know why. It’s a sort of subterfuge.’ – Walter Murch

‘The real danger to the world’s resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups’ actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.’ – Hassan Nasrallah

‘A lot of heart breaks, broken trusts have given me the perspective that you have got to choose what affects you and what does not, because it is a crazy life out there.’ – Karan Kundrra

‘There’s an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren’t as important as we make them sometimes.’ – Marguerite Moreau

‘The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we’re all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.’ – Sarah Pinborough

‘Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.’ – Melanie Martinez

‘From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.’ – Trevor Paglen

‘Everything is possible; we just need to be hopeful and think of the world from a human perspective. The world is so small compared to the universe, so we shouldn’t fight for petty things.’ – Manal al-Sharif

‘I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.’ – Tim Tebow

‘We’re working on making sure that our incentives are in place and that our legislation promotes crypto and blockchain and is forward-thinking. We want to make sure that we’re creating as much of an equity framework from an educational perspective as we possibly can.’ – Francis X. Suarez

‘It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It’s important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.’ – Anthony Edwards

‘If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.’ – Brian Koslow

‘Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.’ – Austin Aries

‘Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.’ – Christopher Morley

‘Perseverance and perspective until victory.’ – Lincoln Diaz-Balart

‘To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.’ – L. Lionel Kendrick

‘The paradigm of the ‘Aquarian Conspiracy’ sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society… The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.’ – Miguel

‘I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone – I understand it from a fan’s perspective but I also feel like it’s a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.’ – Steve Albini

‘Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.’ – Timothee Chalamet

‘I like to say I’m determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.’ – Ram Dass

”Thirteen’ was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and imperfections and what it was like growing up. It was from one kid’s perspective and not a well rounded one. You get older, and it’s like, ‘How dare I portray my father as being a totally vacant, careless schmuck?” – Nikki Reed

‘My college experience was like everyone else’s. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I’m so thankful and appreciative for.’ – Kyle Carpenter

‘My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.’ – Mother Angelica

‘The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.’ – Gerald Vizenor

‘Doing a film with somebody who’s from a different country or culture than you is very fulfilling because they bring with them different insights, experiences, cultural norms, and expectations. All of those things can sort of broaden your own understanding of things or provide a different perspective.’ – Ryan Eggold

‘I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate – it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.’ – Mae Jemison

‘This country was created from stolen land and stolen labor. And from a moral perspective, but also from a practical one, everybody knows that when you steal, you’re always looking over your shoulder because you know that somebody may steal it back.’ – Alicia Garza

‘If one tries to think about history, it seems to me – it’s like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you’ve moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.’ – Robert Harris

‘As a child, I didn’t know what I didn’t have. I’m thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what’s important.’ – America Ferrera

‘At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.’ – Mary Oliver

‘I’m a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.’ – Pharrell Williams

‘I don’t know if it’s because my father’s from Argentina, that I’m the son of an immigrant, I don’t know if its because I’m Jewish, but I have always been mindful that the best insights occur when you have some kind of an outsider perspective.’ – Mark Leibovich

‘The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative – satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don’t have to have otherwise.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams. And it’s given me great perspective.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings

‘I am a woman. I definitely have a woman’s perspective. I’m also a mother, and I think, because of that, I feel responsible to try and make a difference.’ – Nadine Labaki

‘I’ve seen terrorism close up, but I don’t live in a state of terror at all. I’m comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.’ – Douglas Brunt

‘From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.’ – Adam Grant

‘At a certain point, when I let go and was done – when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective – that’s when I healed. Letting go healed me.’ – Dominick Cruz

‘One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it’s almost a non-event when it happens.’ – Anne M. Mulcahy

‘The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I’m happy that I’ve had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.’ – K. Flay

‘As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.’ – Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

‘Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.’ – Josh McDowell

‘Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It’s so important we keep creating.’ – Mark Foster

‘Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.’ – Tatyana Tolstaya

‘Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.’ – Kenneth L. Pike

‘I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.’ – Alessandro Michele

‘My mom’s a children’s television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be.’ – Alycia Debnam-Carey

‘It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don’t really care whether you’re the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what’s important.’ – John Roberts

‘I think we really try to focus on acknowledgement. Like acknowledging, OK, that was not such a good play, but at the end of the day it’s only one point really in the perspective of the match, and you have a chance to replace it with a good one.’ – Jordan Larson

‘I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God’s name whatever I can discern of God’s perspective on the world around – something which involves both challenge and comfort.’ – Rowan Williams

‘The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.’ – Sally Ride

‘I’m proud of my independence. And certainly from a business perspective, that’s always been a main agenda for me – to make my own position, don’t try and be like somebody else, because there already is that somebody else.’ – Rob Van Dam

‘The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.’ – Nazanin Boniadi

‘I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.’ – Susanna Fogel

‘The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God’s grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.’ – C. J. Mahaney

‘I tell all the young guys, don’t make choices because somebody else is telling you it’s good from a career-maintenance perspective.’ – Brad Pitt

‘Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I’ve said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.’ – Scott McCallum

‘Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.’ – Matthew Hussey

‘I started my first year at college on May 10 2015, and dropped my first video, ‘Black Box’ on the same day, it’s pretty weird. I’m studying Philosophy and Ethics, Law and Music. Ethics helps a lot with music. Philosophy gives you a great perspective on things; it makes you think deeper about what you’re saying.’ – Santan Dave

‘I’m 21 years old and I think that I’ve got a lot of perspective in life.’ – Mac Miller

‘Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it’s all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.’ – Doug Harvey

‘When you don’t have diversity in the creative process, you inevitably end up with a single, narrow perspective in the output.’ – Hannah Fry

‘The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.’ – Richard Schickel

‘I wrote two poems about the ’81 uprisings: ‘Di Great Insohreckshan’ and ‘Mekin Histri.’ I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.’ – Linton Kwesi Johnson

‘I don’t see things from a worm’s perspective but a bird’s perspective. I smile at problems.’ – Manisha Koirala

‘I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it’s up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.’ – Krist Novoselic

‘In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Christopher Nolan’s ‘Batman Begins’ set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker’s perspective.’ – Jon Favreau

‘Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.’ – Lauren Graham

‘This might disappoint you somewhat, but I have to say my interest in Tolkien has faded dramatically over the years. His language skills are amazing, his story good and fascinating, but… he has a very Judeo-Christian perspective, and his use of mythical creatures is very… ignorant.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way – but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.’ – Ana de Armas

‘I’ve said that, that I’ve felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘I’ve always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it’s been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.’ – Richard Linklater

‘It’s stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.’ – Steve Case

‘I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.’ – Bruce Wilkinson

‘For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective.’ – Malcolm Brogdon

‘I think it’s healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it’s important to do that.’ – Selena Gomez

‘From my perspective, it’s really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.’ – Gwynne Shotwell

‘The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.’ – Paul Tudor Jones

‘In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.’ – W. H. Auden

‘You know, I’m a pretty mellow guy. I’m pretty easy-going. I see everyone’s perspective.’ – Paul Walker

‘The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.’ – David Droga

‘Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘When you’re in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That’s the consolation of philosophy.’ – David Cronenberg

‘I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it’s easier to breeze through life’s turmoils; there’s more room to breathe.’ – Gwendoline Christie

‘When I discovered reggae music, I found I could learn more and get more from it. It change your perspective, it helps you feel more calm, it sends a message. I wanted that to be a part of what I was going to do.’ – Koffee

‘Football is a socialist sport. Financially, some may receive more rewards than others but, from a footballing perspective, for 90 minutes, regardless of whether you are Lionel Messi or the substitute right-back for Argentina, you are all working to the same end.’ – John Barnes

‘Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it’s not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It’s just a matter of psychology.’ – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

‘Life has to be everything. It can’t be all sad. It can’t be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it’s not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.’ – Sterling K. Brown

‘Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We’re trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.’ – Philip Zimbardo

‘Eating matzo ball soup for the first time was akin to a religious experience because of how deeply contemplative it was. It made me realise that something as simple as chicken soup – in any culture or religion, or through any perspective – can be very symbolic, nourishing and meaningful.’ – Melissa Leong

‘I’m not here to say I don’t eat vegetables – I do, a lot of them – but, from a soil perspective, they’re actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.’ – Dan Barber

‘Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can’t please everyone. Don’t even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you’re doing.’ – Buddy DeFranco

‘Immersing myself in Shakespeare’s plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.’ – Tim Tebow

‘Understanding your employee’s perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.’ – Steve Gleason

‘Being ambitious, driven, and passionate can sometimes come at a cost and warp our sense of perspective: when we constantly work and strive to be better, we can find ourselves dwelling on mistakes of the past or putting pressure on what we’ll do in the future, rather than living in the present.’ – Vick Hope

‘I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that’s one of my strengths, because you have – every detail matters.’ – Henry Selick

‘What’s great about ‘Game of Thrones’ is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you’ll go, ‘Oh my God, horrible’, and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.’ – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

‘I think the ‘Law of Attraction’ comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function – like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is.’ – Wayne Shorter

‘Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.’ – Stan Brakhage

‘Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she’s really talented and very, very funny.’ – Cameron Mathison

‘Having a dope mindset and good energy is rare, and you just putting a little bit of your light into someone else can change their whole perspective on life just doing that.’ – Cordae

‘Just going through a marriage and a divorce – which I essentially did by 21 – will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.’ – Solange Knowles

‘Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God’s eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God’s timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.’ – Adam Hamilton

‘Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.’ – David Harewood

‘Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.’ – Baba Kalyani

‘Sometimes it’s so easy for me to get caught up in my own head, selfishly looking at things from my own perspective, that I forget how important it is to uplift other people. Not by these rah-rah speeches and not by getting in somebody’s face but just by being a genuinely happy, emotional guy.’ – Jason Kelce

‘I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It’s not that I don’t want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.’ – Matthew Sweet

‘From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I’m not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I’m not talking about co-dependency, I’m talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘You’re going to have your struggles every now and then, but you’ve just got to always keep it in perspective and try to have a good time.’ – Cody Bellinger

‘I’d much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It’s a unique perspective. You’re this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it’s nice to be reminded of that.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘So looking at the planet from this perspective – to see the Earth and these beautiful land masses and oceans without lines or words drawn on them – it just heightens an awareness that the planet needs protection, and human life needs protection, and we are the ones who have to protect it.’ – Victor J. Glover

‘Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.’ – John Sununu

‘When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it’s just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.’ – Cheryl Strayed

‘I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.’ – Brian McKnight

‘The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them?’ – Erving Goffman

‘I purposely didn’t change the pronouns in ‘Dancing On My Own’ so that it was from a gay man’s perspective.’ – Calum Scott

‘The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.’ – Steven Wright

‘That is who Barack Obama is – a person of admirable character – and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective – even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.’ – Hayley Mills

‘From a reality perspective, I’m sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don’t know what is.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there’s a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there’s the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.’ – Cameron Winklevoss

‘I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say ‘he,’ or I’ll make songs about guys, and I say ‘she,’ or sometimes they’re exactly what they’re about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.’ – Kehlani

‘There are so many situations when you feel like your heart is breaking. I keep those emotions pent up, so I can create stories around them and shape what I would say from another perspective.’ – Tate McRae

‘Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.’ – Johnny Depp

‘I think the best thing is having a voice and being able to give people a different perspective and a different opinion and voice my emotions and how I feel. To be heard by people, it feels good.’ – Bazzi

‘Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world’s longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don’t use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.’ – Dan Buettner

‘Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.’ – Nancy Duarte

‘My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.’ – Platon

‘I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.’ – Coolio

‘If you’re religious, it gives you a perspective.’ – Martha Beck

‘Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you’re like, I am never going to feel the same and I have this new perspective on life. So much gratitude, life just feels like this enormous treasure. Then that kind of just falls away and you’re back being grumpy about having an early morning meeting.’ – Simone Giertz

‘It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I’m not planning to write a script; I’m planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.’ – Alex Garland

‘Nothing is won on your first shift and nothing is lost on your first shift, so it’s about keeping things in perspective.’ – Joe Thornton

‘I’m open to reading almost anything – fiction, nonfiction – as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.’ – Amy Tan

”Pumped Up Kicks’ is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote ‘In Cold Blood’ or Dostoevsky wrote ‘Crime & Punishment.’ It’s psychologically breaking down someone’s state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.’ – Mark Foster

‘So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.’ – Steve Jobs

‘I decided that the stock market was not an option for IKEA. I knew that only a long-term perspective could secure our growth plans, and I didn’t want IKEA to become dependent on financial institutions.’ – Ingvar Kamprad

‘The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor – those great tools of thought – and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.’ – Naomi Shihab Nye

‘When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.’ – Jean Rostand

‘My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child’s perspective – the volatility.’ – Patricia Arquette

‘From a personal perspective, I am so looking forward to my new role as a parent. But I am equally focused on my job and responsibilities as prime minister.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘I am always open to working with debutant directors, as they bring a new perspective to a script. That motivates me and helps me choose unique scripts.’ – Nayanthara

‘Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.’ – Atif Aslam

‘From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth’s ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age – but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.’ – Herman Kahn

‘The immigrant experience in ‘Ilustrado’ was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.’ – Miguel Syjuco

‘I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don’t.’ – Ariel Garten

‘Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.’ – Meghan Markle

‘Everyone’s going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.’ – Justin Roiland

‘If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What’s the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn’t completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don’t know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.’ – Rabih Alameddine

‘My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.’ – Brent Faiyaz

‘We play a sport. It’s a game. At the end of the day, that’s all it is, is a game. It doesn’t make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you’re no better. By losing a game, you’re no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.’ – Tim Tebow

‘A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.’ – Morris Chestnut

‘It’s just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.’ – Ciara

‘Failure. It doesn’t exist. ‘Failure’ is just what happens when we lose perspective.’ – Donna Brazile

‘He’s from Fayetteville. I’m from Charlotte. We got two different upbringings. All in all though, I love J. Cole’s perspective and I love his music. I love his approach. It’s just two different things.’ – DaBaby

‘When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you’ll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America – maybe even North America.’ – Frank Grillo

‘When my kids love my work, I feel elated and victorious; it means more to me than an Oscar. And when they are silent, I’m proud that they have a mind and perspective of their own and are courageous enough not to say things just to please me.’ – Hrithik Roshan

‘In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it’s so cool, and I’ve grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.’ – Ali Krieger

‘Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.’ – Michael Buble

‘We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we’ve retained a lot of our beast nature. We’ve done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we’re flying around and using the Internet. But we’re still very animalistic.’ – Wangechi Mutu

‘If you look at the developments in the international scene over the past many years, we haven’t been able to resolve many problems and many crises, because we have approached them from a zero-sum perspective. My gain has always been defined as somebody else’s loss, and through that, we never resolve problems.’ – Mohammad Javad Zarif

‘Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country’s security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.’ – Oscar Fernandes

‘From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.’ – Majora Carter

‘Thanks to my Czech-German heritage, I can’t get enough of savory foods like stews, sausage, noodles, and anything that involves melted cheese. Not great choices from a dietary perspective, but at the end of a long day, I feel like I’m entitled.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you’re going to be lost.’ – Eva LaRue

‘The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think kids relate to that. He has a creative spark in the same way children are very creative from an open and naive perspective.’ – Stephen Hillenburg

‘We are used to women’s narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.’ – Danai Gurira

‘You have to know how to keep things in perspective.’ – Tony Parker

‘To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.’ – Irving R. Kaufman

‘I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.’ – Joe Mays

‘Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not ‘communication.’ Bombs result in death and destruction.’ – H. R. McMaster

‘The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.’ – Alphonso Jackson

‘It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest.’ – Anthony Edwards

‘My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.’ – Tony Blair

‘When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.’ – Allen Klein

‘The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.’ – Warren Bennis

‘What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person’s perspective rather than the situation itself.’ – Rick Smolan

‘My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.’ – K. Flay

‘The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you’re dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you’d like, too.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don’t judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.’ – Henry Golding

‘Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washington, D.C., and return to Indiana. I see the bizarre bubble that seems to enclose the Beltway and makes people forget what regular people care about.’ – Evan Bayh

‘Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘I speak from a nerd’s perspective because I’ve been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Star Blazers’ and ‘Battle of the Planets,’ and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.’ – Yuri Lowenthal

‘Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I’m partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.’ – Neil Diamond

‘I’ve lost perspective on what I’m doing. I think it’s good for me to take a break and reassess why I’m doing it and how I’m doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it’s partly from an atheist perspective because I’m an atheist, and I’m just not really interested in religious-based questions.’ – Alex Garland

‘Perspective is not a science but a hope.’ – John Berger

‘From a security perspective, if you’re connected, you’re screwed.’ – Daniel J. Bernstein

‘The institution of marriage works better when there’s a spiritual connection. If you’re marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.’ – Michelle Pfeiffer

‘My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I’m smart and have opinions worth being heard.’ – Ursula Burns

‘I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I’ve done that are good, and I’m proud of them. There are things that I’m really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I’m cool and ever so smart.’ – David Crosby

‘There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue – at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that’s the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.’ – Michael Horton

‘Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.’ – Arvind Gupta

‘If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.’ – Phoebe Waller-Bridge

‘I’ve had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.’ – Kofi Kingston

‘The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.’ – John Clayton

‘It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!’ – Dan Ariely

‘I think a spell abroad for anybody is incredibly useful. It gives you a great sense of perspective, and you see other ways of doing things.’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

‘One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.’ – Robert Harris

‘I’ve traveled a fair amount around the country and visited many states. It’s amazing that Oregon is so different from Idaho; even though Portland isn’t that far from Boise, it’s a completely different city. Colorado is very different from Oregon. From a European perspective, I’ve always found that fascinating about America.’ – Andrew Haigh

”Cloverfield’ and ‘REC’ are great examples of movies that took kind of tired genres, the monster movie and the zombie film, and by filming them in found footage, it was a new perspective. It gives you a whole new take and helps you re-experience that all over again.’ – Adam Wingard

‘Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company – great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there’s a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.’ – Li Shufu

‘Obviously, you want to get adoration from fans and people who consume what you do, but also getting that from your peers goes a long way. That’s how I keep my perspective. I feel really fortunate.’ – Big E

‘I’m a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.’ – CM Punk

‘It’s always hard when you’re working on a project, and you’re seeing it in bits and pieces, whether that be film, television, video games, animation – you only really have perspective of what you’re interacting with.’ – Matthew Mercer

‘I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what’s really going on.’ – Dick Costolo

‘Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.’ – Henry Grunwald

‘Emotions get in the way but they don’t pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.’ – Ted Koppel

‘Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.’ – Owen Feltham

‘We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.’ – Constantin Stanislavski

‘One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren’t so apparent from the ground.’ – Sonny Perdue

‘Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.’ – Tom Hanks

‘It’s a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I’m a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.’ – Debra Messing

‘I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.’ – Sean Bean

‘The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way – the way God intended it to be – by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.’ – Roger B. Chaffee

‘You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.’ – Alan Perlis

‘I’ve always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.’ – Danny Bonaduce

‘The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it’s going to be. The backers accept that they don’t know what they are going to get.’ – Mike Leigh

‘At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That’s the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.’ – Nick Cave

‘My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.’ – Dave Davies

‘If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.’ – Damon Hill

‘Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace – it lends perspective.’ – Paul Anka

‘From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.’ – John Fahey

‘There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.’ – Eddie Bernice Johnson

‘How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.’ – Suzanne Vega

‘A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don’t take yourself seriously.’ – Thomas P. O’Neill

‘I haven’t turned into some rich monster. I’ve kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It’s hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.’ – Christine McVie

‘I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don’t know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘So you’re dealing with a coach, and you’re dealing with a guy who’s actually experienced NBA basketball from a player’s perspective and actually goes about it that way.’ – Kevin Garnett

‘Why would you create a movie for black people if you don’t understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.’ – Tim Reid

‘And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.’ – John Rowland

‘Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.’ – Herman Kahn

‘It’s very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.’ – Jena Malone

‘There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.’ – Joe Morton

‘I still write the same way and have the same perspective.’ – Babyface

‘And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.’ – Morris Chestnut

‘I think it’s going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.’ – Suzy Bogguss

‘I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.’ – James D’arcy

‘Eventually the bad stuff I’m writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I’ve just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I’d have a better perspective when I came back to it.’ – Margaret Haddix

‘I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.’ – Nicholas Brendon

‘In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.’ – John Podesta

‘He hasn’t said whether he remembers the episode itself – or, if he doesn’t, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn’t said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.’ – Michael Kinsley

‘My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I’ll go to college.’ – Dana Hill

‘Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.’ – Jean-Marie Le Pen

‘It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.’ – Tracey Ullman

‘Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.’ – Barney Frank

‘One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America’s youth about military service.’ – John M. McHugh

‘My perspective is a lil different ‘cus im from Manhattan .’ – Kool Moe Dee

‘I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.’ – Jo Bonner

‘Passion has always been important to me. That won’t change. What changes in a woman’s perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I’m a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.’ – Jody Watley

‘It’s a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.’ – Kerry King

‘So from an actor’s perspective, you really have no idea how you’re acting.’ – Ice T

‘I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.’ – Paul Cellucci

‘Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.’ – Paul Cellucci

‘To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.’ – Christine Todd Whitman

‘One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.’ – Jonathan Carroll

‘The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we’re seeing today are far from unprecedented.’ – L. Neil Smith

‘If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can’t get on your own.’ – Jesse James Garrett

‘That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective – the more screwed up, the better.’ – Jeri Ryan

‘The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician’s perspective.’ – Melissa Auf der Maur

‘It’s no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.’ – Bob Schieffer

‘Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.’ – Jean M. Auel

‘And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don’t see very often in the press.’ – Patricia Heaton

‘As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences – this life and beyond – we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.’ – Henry Reed

‘All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.’ – David Gill

‘I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.’ – Jodie Foster

‘Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You’ve really got to know the impact of what you’re wearing on the character you’re playing.’ – Kyle MacLachlan

‘And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.’ – Warren Farrell

‘There are always things to examine. What’s great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.’ – Fred Frith

‘From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.’ – Wilhelm Dilthey

‘Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.’ – Donnie Wahlberg

‘I’m not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey’s perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.’ – Sue Grafton

‘Most people’s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.’ – Grete Waitz

‘I guess I don’t have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don’t think I’d like it.’ – Calvin Klein

‘Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.’ – John Lithgow

‘The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.’ – Brooke Shields

‘If you’re doing something new you’ve got to have a vision. You’ve got to have a perspective. You’ve got to have some north star you’re aiming for, and you just believe somehow you’ll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.’ – Steve Case

‘And I’d say one of the great lessons I’ve learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.’ – Steve Case

‘There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.’ – Stephen Cambone

‘Now, I’m not suggesting we’re going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we’ve come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come – go, as well.’ – Michael Chertoff

‘When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.’ – Melissa Bean

‘So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.’ – Aleksander Kwasniewski

‘As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian’s efforts to reach all Americans.’ – Xavier Becerra

‘I think there’s an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.’ – Meg Ryan

‘The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you’ve got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.’ – Marguerite Moreau

‘The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.’ – Frank Shorter

‘I’m coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I’m looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.’ – Tim McGraw

‘Other people’s perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don’t. I like being sexy. It’s fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.’ – Carmen Electra

‘I’ve never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I’m pretty balanced.’ – Sting

‘I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.’ – John Kricfalusi

‘I’ve been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.’ – Andre Agassi

‘I’m not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.’ – Holly Near

‘To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, ‘Oh well, that’s for women’.’ – Holly Near

‘Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It’s seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.’ – Jeffrey Wright

‘I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.’ – Joe Barton

‘Time puts things in proper perspective.’ – Cameron Crowe

‘The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.’ – Arthur Peacocke

‘I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it’s always been that way, but at the same time, it’s part of my job to see what kind of job I’m doing and to get a perspective on where I’m taking the character.’ – James Lafferty

‘Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it’s all a perspective. It’s all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.’ – Debi Mazar

‘I’m a Southerner – I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I’m forced to find a good side, I’m glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn’t really been discussed all that much. I’m glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.’ – Kathryn Stockett

‘Some readers tell me, ‘We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.’ You know, that’s interesting, but I wonder what your maid’s perspective was on that.’ – Kathryn Stockett

‘From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we’re engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.’ – Dick Cheney

‘I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.’ – Ice Cube

‘Everything’s got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it’s a whole different world. You can lose perspective.’ – Mos Def

‘Gary Ross is amazing. He’s just – he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He’s trying different things and making everything look amazing.’ – Liam Hemsworth

‘Well, here’s what I’ll say: The storytellers of ‘Lost’ have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you’ll be happy.’ – Daniel Dae Kim

‘As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they’ve brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.’ – Dee Dee Myers

‘I probably grow half my food. It’s a good way to keep perspective.’ – Emilio Estevez

‘Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I’m going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they’ll be able to walk away with something good from it.’ – Jayson Blair

‘The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it’s interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It’s a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females.’ – Nelly

‘I’m a sappy mom now. I didn’t think I would be. I thought I’d be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.’ – Allyson Felix

‘It was probably right after I made my comeback – after retiring post-2008 Olympics – when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.’ – Alicia Sacramone

‘One must put things in perspective – I’ve been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.’ – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

‘Things definitely got out of perspective.’ – Katie Hoff

‘I really didn’t feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I’m not going to do that this time.’ – Ryan Hall

‘I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.’ – Delta Goodrem

‘I’ve kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.’ – Eric Shanteau

‘I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them – the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well – help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.’ – Kristin Kreuk

‘Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can’t go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.’ – Chris Webber

‘Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I’ve become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.’ – Danica Patrick

‘No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.’ – Danica Patrick

‘You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody’s perspective, I think.’ – Jerry Yang

‘I look at this game from a different perspective.’ – Pitbull

‘All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.’ – Mark Viduka

‘I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can’t interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they’re gone and people are more willing to talk about them.’ – David Maraniss

‘I think I’ve always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.’ – Andy Roddick

‘Nobody wants to get locked up, although ‘locked up’ is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.’ – Jonah Goldberg

‘Let’s not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let’s give importance to the real democracy that’s constructed on a day-to-day basis. That’s my hopeful perspective on it.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal

‘You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them.’ – Alan Cumming

‘I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they’re talking about me for.’ – Colm Meaney

‘From an art perspective, I don’t know how you get better than ‘Beetlejuice.’ In terms of originality and a look, it’s 100% unique.’ – Michael Keaton

‘It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.’ – Boris Trajkovski

‘A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I’m one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let’s just say I’m the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.’ – Bret Michaels

‘The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.’ – Pete Hoekstra

‘You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city – you don’t need to go to Beirut for that – but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘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.’ – Greta Van Susteren

‘Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.’ – Jack Kemp

‘People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn’t the case. Even though they don’t necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That’s always been their perspective.’ – Katy Perry

‘Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.’ – John Sununu

‘You get perspective on things when you’re away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.’ – Rachel Weisz

‘There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘From a scientist’s perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers’ perspective too.’ – Tom Bergeron

‘The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

‘Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.’ – Guy Pearce

‘In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.’ – Helen Clark

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

‘With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.’ – Jon Meacham

‘Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.’ – Nick Clegg

‘Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church’s social teachings.’ – Salvatore J. Cordileone

‘You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.’ – Kim Stanley Robinson

‘Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.’ – Adriana Lima

‘For us, from Korea’s perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.’ – Lee Myung-bak

‘From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.’ – Lee Myung-bak

‘There’s almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that’s with a ‘B,’ is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that’s a 5×5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China.’ – James Chanos

‘But I would say maybe just from an actress’s perspective, probably ‘Woman Under the Influence’ is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances… you don’t feel like you’re watching a film.’ – Olivia Thirlby

‘South Africa gives me a perspective of what’s real and what’s not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn’t take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.’ – Dave Matthews

‘I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He’s a Boston baby and I’m a New York guy.’ – Kevin James

‘Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I’ve never let people’s opinions affect the way I write.’ – Katy Perry

‘The woman’s perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.’ – Ang Lee

‘As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘So, I’m always around video games but I’ve always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don’t know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that’s always what’s held my interest about them.’ – Sophia Bush

‘I have done many movies that people hadn’t seen. ‘The Fountain,’ I spent a year on that. ‘The Prestige’ with Chris Nolan, and ‘Australia.’ From my perspective it’s very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don’t. ‘Wolverine,’ ‘X Men,’ I know that in some level people know me just for that and it’s fine for me.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘It’s a disease of critics that once they’ve labeled someone, it’s very hard to change their perspective. It’s laziness.’ – Michael Haneke

‘Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.’ – Dennis Prager

‘You don’t really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.’ – Shirley Manson

‘I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I’m not an expert by any means, but it’s so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it’s given them a different perspective.’ – Elizabeth McGovern

‘I certainly don’t think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it’s even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.’ – Shania Twain

‘When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.’ – Christine Lagarde

‘It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I’m over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.’ – Giovanni Ribisi

‘Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it’s valid.’ – Macklemore

‘Don’t hit people; don’t let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women’s lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.’ – Carre Otis

‘Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that’s embarrassing, but World of Warcraft – not embarrassing, very cool.’ – Aubrey Plaza

‘When I had my child, I planned on being with the woman I had him with for the rest of my life. If that doesn’t work out, you have to see things from a different perspective.’ – Corey Feldman

‘My husband’s family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it’s just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.’ – Sarah Wayne Callies

‘As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.’ – Spike Jonze

‘My best mentor is a mechanic – and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn’t have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.’ – Yuri Milner

‘Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.’ – Holly Madison

‘Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.’ – Alexander McCall Smith

‘What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We’re all creative all of the time, we can’t help but be creative.’ – Jonah Lehrer

‘It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.’ – Felicity Jones

‘You know, it shouldn’t just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories – just to express human experience from a woman’s perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I’m all about representation.’ – Diablo Cody

‘People can’t stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.’ – Jose Padilha

‘I think I approach things with an outsider’s perspective.’ – Bennett Miller

‘You ought to have a perspective when you’re making a film.’ – Vera Farmiga

‘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.’ – Jason Reitman

‘I’ve always had an underdog perspective.’ – Jason Reitman

‘It’s weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, ‘I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.’ Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.’ – Matthew Rhys

‘I think I’m fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it’s impossible to ignore.’ – Tom Perrotta

‘When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you’re a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.’ – Henning Mankell

‘People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.’ – Sondre Lerche

‘My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn’t mean anything if I’m not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.’ – Malcolm-Jamal Warner

”Catholic writer’ seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don’t have a lot in common with other ‘Catholic’ writers.’ – Mary Gordon

‘I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.’ – Steve Daines

‘More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.’ – John Hodgman

‘I feel that as artists – whatever your medium is – I feel that we’re watching what goes on around us and we take what we don’t see, or we don’t hear, or we don’t feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it – whatever our perspective is – that’s what our job is.’ – Miguel

‘When I’m a part of someone else’s creative process, it’s all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.’ – Miguel

‘Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there’s a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.’ – Tom Shadyac

‘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.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don’t want to be left behind.’ – Daniel H. Wilson

‘I’ve found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.’ – Ricky Schroder

‘I’ve had meetings with Fidel Castro. I’ve had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I’ve had meetings with other dictators. I’ve met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it’s important to hear, you know, each other’s perspective.’ – Gary Ackerman

‘I’m a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I’m not so good at perspective.’ – Garry Trudeau

‘Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.’ – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

‘I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.’ – Russel Honore

‘As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, ‘How do you make it work with your husband?’ The interesting thing is that these women – most of them – don’t lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.’ – Michelle Bachelet

‘I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I’m a fan. My perspective’s a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I’m getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.’ – Stephanie Beacham

‘I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.’ – Charlayne Hunter-Gault

‘Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it’s not merely about being oppositional, because that’s too negative.’ – Susie Orbach

‘From the law firm’s perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client’s perspective, it doesn’t work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.’ – Robert Pozen

‘I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I’m most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.’ – Craig McCaw

‘Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That’s a great perspective for a comedian.’ – David Steinberg

‘It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.’ – Katrina Bowden

‘Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.’ – Ann Dowd

‘I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.’ – Bobby Cannavale

‘My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son’s perspective.’ – Rufus Sewell

‘The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles – for you to get on parity with what women’s representations of men are.’ – Junot Diaz

‘For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given – N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C.’ – Junot Diaz

‘I see the world from the perspective of a 5’8″ person, not someone who is 6’4″. so naturally, I’m going to choose certain lens heights over and again… Sometimes nature makes choices for you.’ – Michael Mann

‘Right now we’re on the President Obama plan, and we’ll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we’re there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda.’ – Michael Mullen

‘I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.’ – Eli Roth

‘I’ve always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.’ – Isaac Marion

‘To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.’ – Mike White

‘I don’t usually watch a lot of TV, but ‘Mad Men’ changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.’ – Park Chan-wook

‘Sometimes I feel like I’m lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.’ – Eric Dane

‘I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.’ – Alex Clare

‘Generally, it’s a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I’m in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we’re all going to be in for a long boring evening.’ – Denis O’Hare

”What I would give,’ I thought, ‘to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.” – Jennifer Chiaverini

‘I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can’t relate to ‘Basketball Wives,’ ‘Housewives of Atlanta.’ I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ is inclusive of everyone.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘From my own internal fanboy perspective, there’s nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it’s shown me the entire movie.’ – Damon Lindelof

‘Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer’s perspective.’ – Eric Kripke

‘I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I’m keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.’ – Jill Abramson

‘I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn’t competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.’ – Daley Thompson

‘I think understanding is the way to gain perspective – and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.’ – Alice Sebold

‘The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.’ – Daniel H. Pink

‘Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you’re conscious of the other side’s posture, mannerisms, and word choices – and the more you subtly reflect those back – the more accurate you’ll be at taking their perspective.’ – Daniel H. Pink

‘Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.’ – Dan Chaon

‘The success of ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.’ – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

‘I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world.’ – Daniel Tammet

‘I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism – whatever it may be.’ – Ayad Akhtar

‘I’m all for awkward, frank, sometimes painful conversations about things that give everyone a better perspective on who they are in the here and now, and how they want to proceed from there.’ – Tunde Adebimpe

‘I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.’ – Masi Oka

‘In ‘The Plato Papers’ I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there’s a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘If you want something you can’t afford, think what else that money could buy: a week’s groceries, a month’s rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.’ – Sophie Kinsella

‘Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.’ – Sarah Dessen

‘All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The idea of taking what people call the ‘entertainment culture’ as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.’ – Neil Postman

‘Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.’ – Gelila Bekele

‘Almost every morning I write in my journal. I’ve been keeping it for a long time – I’ve filled more than 50 books. I write about what’s going on in my personal and spiritual life or what’s going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.’ – Blake Mycoskie

‘In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘I think that’s what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is – to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.’ – Kali Hawk

‘I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.’ – Hedi Slimane

‘I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there’s something valuable about the part or the song.’ – M. Ward

‘I’m somebody who doesn’t feel the need to be in the driver’s seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger’s seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I’ve learned a lot from that perspective.’ – M. Ward

‘I’m a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren’t as bad as they seem.’ – Ronnie Wood

‘From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.’ – Zooey Deschanel

‘I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.’ – Peter Blair Henry

‘I don’t really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I’ve done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.’ – Avicii

‘Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘No matter what we’re trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we’re trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what’s important in life.’ – Lucas Black

‘Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal

‘From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me… to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas – for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.’ – Danielle de Niese

‘Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, ‘No,’ because it’s an oblate spheroid. They suffer from ‘the curse of knowledge’: the inability to imagine what it’s like not to know something that they know.’ – Steven Pinker

‘Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson

‘I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things – the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.’ – Aaron Koblin

‘I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what’s going on.’ – Nouriel Roubini

‘On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.’ – Douglas Conant

‘Youth is seen as everything. You don’t know anything when you’re young. It’s great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I’m increasingly grateful for every day.’ – Val Kilmer

‘My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They’re very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.’ – Val Kilmer

‘For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not ‘wardrobe,’ but rather policy on women’s issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It’s good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They’re easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don’t.’ – Alyson Stoner

‘The ‘Cheetah Generation’ refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.’ – George Ayittey

‘Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.’ – Iain McGilchrist

‘Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there’s an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.’ – Eric Mabius

‘You know for years, I’ve heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn’t until I saw my own son’s perspective change that I became a true believer.’ – LZ Granderson

‘I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.’ – Krista Tippett

‘My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy’s perspective. You look at my closet and I have pairs of black jeans and five button-downs, but one’s silk, one’s cotton. They all are slightly different, so that’s my perspective.’ – Erin Wasson

‘Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.’ – Lauren Lee Smith

‘Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you’re kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan’s perspective.’ – Cal Ripken, Jr.

‘Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek – people who were always trying to do something else – I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.’ – Paula Garces

‘As I feel this life growing and moving inside of me, all of a sudden everything else is not as important. There’s a level of perspective that is changing.’ – Judy Reyes

‘I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.’ – Christine Quinn

‘Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘From a spinner’s perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn’t say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.’ – Rahul Dravid

‘You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn’t care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I’m going the other way – sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.’ – Bill Simmons

‘The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.’ – Magnus Scheving

‘Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I’m not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that’s out there.’ – Josh Hartnett

‘Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any setback is bad, but if you see it from a perspective, you’ll recover.’ – Viswanathan Anand

‘As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that’s the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything – the irreverent, the scary.’ – Dane Cook

‘I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.’ – Anurag Kashyap

‘When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘I don’t think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I’ve put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal

‘The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, ‘Wait, I think I’ve written that before.” – Robert Smith

‘It is not my job to compare my movies. I don’t like to compare my films with other movies because I don’t really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn’t intuitively come to me.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.’ – Madhur Bhandarkar

‘A lot of people do comedy about India, but they’re not from India. It’s a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and maybe one on how we see the West.’ – Vir Das

‘Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.’ – Teju Cole

‘All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective – it does!’ – Rachel Zoe

‘I’m happy to say that at 62, I think I’ve reached that point where stuff doesn’t bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I’ve had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.’ – Bonnie Raitt

‘I’ve learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don’t think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is – I’ve learned technical skills and more about the craft.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.’ – Ashwin Sanghi

‘I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they’re just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don’t really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.’ – Shirley Manson

‘I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.’ – Winona Ryder

‘I don’t know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It’s such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It’s bliss, love and fulfillment of another level.’ – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

‘When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you’re a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family – that’s your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.’ – Kristen Stewart

‘I don’t teach literature from my perspective as ‘Joyce Carol Oates.’ I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I’m teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought ‘wow’; she was writing from a black girl’s perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.’ – Jill Scott

‘I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.’ – Taylor Schilling

‘It’s amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It’s perspective is all different.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I’ve never let people’s opinions affect the way I write.’ – Katy Perry

‘At the end of the day, ‘My Deaf Family’ is about a typical family that all of us can identify with but told from an unusual and what I believe will be a fascinating perspective.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.’ – Alan Alda

‘A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I’m creating a form of fiction.’ – Isabel Allende

‘The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.’ – John Shelby Spong

‘From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It’s really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.’ – Lily Cole

‘Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices – at any age – we are absorbed in someone else’s perspective.’ – Julia Cameron

‘Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.’ – Warren Farrell

‘When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It’s a beautiful place.’ – Leos Carax

‘The idea of ‘advice,’ in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.’ – Tao Lin

‘Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman’s perspective, but other times it will be just from a satirical, goofy perspective.’ – Jessica Williams

‘Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.’ – Hanneli Mustaparta

‘People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that’s not how it works.’ – John Diamond

‘People think anything done from a woman’s perspective is only going to appeal to women.’ – Jen Kirkman

‘YouTube’s traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google’s perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.’ – Eric Schmidt

‘That’s the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you’d want to say.’ – Gin Wigmore

‘We’re journalists, and so it’s our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what’s happening on the ground from the perspective of what we’re able to see.’ – Clarissa Ward

‘Embedded in ‘The New York Times’ institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, ‘The Times,’ by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘When I give my time to a worthy cause, it’s time well spent. Lending a voice to help raise money – or perhaps just awareness – is the least I can do to give back. When I spend time with people who are fighting for children, it puts everything into perspective.’ – Amy Robach

‘I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.’ – Wentworth Miller

‘If you don’t belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is ‘exile,’ and that’s not fun at all.’ – Peter Morgan

‘The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a person’s chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.’ – David Perlmutter

‘As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson’s patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.’ – David Perlmutter

‘I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘You can’t come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That’s why you’ll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don’t try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.’ – Chad Hurley

‘When I first started making music, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn’t have a concept. I didn’t think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.’ – Juliana Hatfield

‘The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being an outsider. That desire for a perspective that’s all your own. The idea for me to make stuff myself with my own meaning came from that as well.’ – Kurt Braunohler

‘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.’ – James Mercer

‘Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what’s around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘I couldn’t be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn’t know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I’m excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a different perspective.’ – Cutter Hodierne

‘Japan is very cosmopolitan – it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult’s perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story – that part of a young person’s life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it’s like to be twelve years old.’ – Kimberly Willis Holt

‘We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.’ – Hamdi Ulukaya

‘First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don’t think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it’s actually not out of step.’ – Shepard Fairey

‘I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be ‘important.’ The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn’t.’ – Akhil Sharma

‘If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there’s no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it’s better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.’ – Roger Deakins

‘As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It’s a warning: ‘Don’t do that again.’ If you burn yourself, you’re never going to pick up a live coal again.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they’re doing something very active.’ – Adam Driver

‘From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there’s been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven’t won it – John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O’Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.’ – Tony McCoy

‘Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.’ – C. J. Mahaney

‘No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.’ – Preity Zinta

‘Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.’ – Linda Sanchez

‘The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam’s perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn’t really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘From my perspective, ‘postmodernism’ merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat – such as conscientiously hunted animals – involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.’ – Tristram Stuart

‘A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That’s a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.’ – Michael Dickinson

‘I’ve had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else’s frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else’s.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama – those who came before and those who will come after.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it’s how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘I read every country’s perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.’ – Indra Nooyi

‘Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.’ – Vanna Bonta

‘In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception – of color, light, and perspective – but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.’ – Eric Kandel

‘If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.’ – Eric Kandel

‘We use the word ‘synoptic’ to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means ‘seeing together,’ because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke – whoever wrote those Gospels – used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.’ – Elaine Pagels

‘We all get so caught up in the moment of what we’re doing every day, it’s hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.’ – Tony Stewart

‘There are seasons in life. Don’t ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season… Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective.’ – Jane Clayson

‘Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It’s not just one disease – there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.’ – Marvin Sapp

‘I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.’ – Wadah Khanfar

‘The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.’ – Mick Ebeling

‘If you represent the Earth’s lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June – a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.’ – Martin Rees

‘From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What was the spark that, billions of years ago, kickstarted the process of evolution that has brought us life as we know it today? I hope that we will get some answers to that in my lifetime.’ – Martin Rees

‘General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.’ – Martin Rees

‘On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.’ – Paul Bloom

‘Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.’ – Paul Bloom

‘I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they’re character-building and they build perspective and talent.’ – Peter Scolari

‘Long-term power purchase agreements are very important from an Indian perspective, not only in terms of supplying regular power across the country, but also for efficacy of the transmission network.’ – Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

‘Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘How hard have those intolerant of John Adams’s perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?’ – Foster Friess

‘I don’t think there’s any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it’s always worth writing.’ – Jami Attenberg

‘I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you’re going through.’ – Soledad O’Brien

‘One of my comics is read by more people – around 70,000 – than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.’ – Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

‘My father’s peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.’ – Hannah Storm

‘It’s one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you’re like, ‘Yea, yea,’ but then you really understand it when it happens to you.’ – Thomas Ian Nicholas

‘When I’m grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals… it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.’ – Darby Stanchfield

‘The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.’ – Timothy Noah

‘How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.’ – Robert Dallek

‘I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Dial M for Murder,’ and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.’ – Dario Argento

‘I’m a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn’t a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh perspective to things because I’m not trying to match anything that’s been done in the past.’ – Roger Craig Smith

‘The inherited tradition is that we don’t tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It’s told through the president or the lawyer.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘I had a long, long time to make ‘Rubberband,’ and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that’s not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, ‘Man I’m really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.” – Charlie Worsham

‘I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller’s perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.’ – Trudi Canavan

‘I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that’s what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world.’ – Marie Rutkoski

”Orientalism’ has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.’ – Okky Madasari

‘The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting – as if for the first time – the extraordinary community of people with disability.’ – Charles Hazlewood

‘Because there’s no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways.’ – Christopher Poole

‘I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don’t play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that’s what I like about my life – doing new things, having a new perspective.’ – Barkhad Abdi

‘I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That’s a lot of fun for me. It’s really rewarding. You’re helping people, but it’s helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, ‘Man, it’s raining again in Minnesota.” – Larry Fitzgerald

‘What’s nice about ‘Skinwalkers’ is it’s allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective… I think, for myself, I’m trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.’ – Adam Beach

‘The more women sit down and write something in a woman’s voice for a woman, they more you’ll see women in comedy because gender doesn’t define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.’ – Kristen Schaal

‘In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.’ – Kacey Musgraves

‘Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It’s a progression of some sort.’ – John Hurt

‘I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I’m not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.’ – Gary Sinise

‘Acting isn’t necessarily pretending. It’s storytelling. It’s giving someone your perspective on something.’ – Crystal Bowersox

‘For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.’ – Rob Lowe

‘I would love to get married, first of all, from my children’s perspective. People don’t think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes.’ – Judy Gold

‘Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, ‘Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?” – Andie MacDowell

‘This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one’s enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.’ – Antony Beevor

‘I’ve been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom’s death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can’t keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.’ – Corbin Bernsen

‘A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don’t want to look at life like that. It’s bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.’ – Corbin Bernsen

‘Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that’s all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, ‘If you are looking for justice, don’t go to a courtroom.’ That’s just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.’ – Scott Turow

‘Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it’s great to get a man’s perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him.’ – Adrienne Bailon

‘I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘First of all, let me just say what’s interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let’s just keep some perspective here.’ – Marco Rubio

‘You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.’ – Brian O’Driscoll

‘I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.’ – Wendy Long

‘I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn’t want to do.’ – Gugu Mbatha-Raw

‘I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don’t get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it’s good to keep a healthy perspective. It’s acting, not rocket science.’ – Gugu Mbatha-Raw

‘I’m a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.’ – Sarah Pinborough

‘There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we’re preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.’ – Thalia

‘The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.’ – Marcia Gay Harden

‘People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.’ – Mike Love

‘Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.’ – Lindsay Wagner

‘Certain things give you another perspective in life.’ – Jose Carreras

‘I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

‘I’m married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.’ – Laurie Graham

‘It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it’s such a long time ago – I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes – he’s almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus

‘It’s an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.’ – Pico Iyer

‘For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.’ – David Sze

‘Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘With a private company, you’ve got to get into who’s investing and what’s the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.’ – David Duffield

‘From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.’ – Steven Sinofsky

‘From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only to benefit Fosun, but to benefit all private enterprises, especially proposals to help small to medium-sized companies.’ – Guo Guangchang

‘I think when war becomes your life, I think it’s very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.’ – Michael Hastings

‘From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.’ – Brunello Cucinelli

‘I like L.A., but it’s just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.’ – Joel Kinnaman

‘I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider’s perspective.’ – Joel Kinnaman

‘There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.’ – Hideo Kojima

‘People grow; people grow apart, and cancer… I’ve had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.’ – Justin Baldoni

‘I’m a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don’t think in these terms. I’m more simple than that. I’m a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.’ – Ashraf Barhom

‘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.’ – Harland Williams

‘When I was auditioning for ‘Gotham,’ I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective – it’s been around for 75 years, which is a long time.’ – Cory Michael Smith

‘As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.’ – John Rhys-Davies

‘Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it’s a stressful environment… You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, ‘What am I doing here? I’m just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.” – Chris Evans

‘People say, ‘Surely there’s the right reasons for going to war?’ And my perspective is, ‘Surely there’s a better way of asking that question?” – Russell Crowe

‘During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it’s like a bubble. I don’t see much outside my own perspective.’ – Abby Wambach

‘I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It’s always a really cool perspective.’ – Daniel Mallory Ortberg

‘I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.’ – Florentijn Hofman

‘I’m an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.’ – Jenny Lewis

‘I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that’s what people first think of when they think of GoPro.’ – Nick Woodman

‘I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.’ – Pattie Boyd

‘I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I’m always trying to improve myself.’ – Jen Lancaster

‘What I hope my writing reflects… is a sense of the connections between all human beings… and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.’ – Chris Crutcher

‘When things don’t go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn’t get, or what you did get?’ – Victoria Osteen

‘I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it’s not mainstream.’ – Lee Daniels

‘There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.’ – Erwin McManus

‘From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it’s become obscured from us because we no longer think it’s possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.’ – Peter Thiel

‘Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it’s a perspective I often bring to a character.’ – Aasif Mandvi

‘Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things – things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.’ – Daniel S. Loeb

‘I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.’ – Tamsin Greig

‘I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.’ – Charles Stross

‘I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don’t think I dumb down my Y.A. It’s just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it’s always third person from the main character’s perspective.’ – Gail Carriger

‘I think it’s important to have perspective and to look at what you don’t necessarily want to see.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.’ – John Burnside

‘It’s often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that’s the key.’ – Phil Klay

‘I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.’ – Tony Tan

‘The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.’ – Imre Kertesz

‘I don’t know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it’s their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.’ – Kiersey Clemons

‘From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.’ – Baba Kalyani

‘I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I’d love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.’ – Kate Christensen

‘I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective.’ – Jochen Zeitz

‘It’s different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.’ – Dan Webster

‘I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don’t subscribe to that perspective, not because there’s something inherent in the text that tells me it’s a religion of peace.’ – Maajid Nawaz

‘Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.’ – Terry Teachout

‘I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That’s how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.’ – Elle King

‘I didn’t realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.’ – Kristin Gore

‘I’m a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it’s the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I’m playing, to not make too big a deal of it… that’s where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.’ – Zach Johnson

‘Why not take a science fiction comic and put the characters in a small town to gain their particular perspective? A lot of that comes from me growing up in a small town on a farm, so that’s what I know and what I’m comfortable with. My drawing style is also very sparse and minimalist, so a rural setting complements that.’ – Jeff Lemire

‘Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have always wanted to share my perspective of these world renowned institutions.’ – David Hallberg

‘With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It’s the Web.’ – Bill Atkinson

‘Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for ‘The Perfumer’s Secret,’ I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.’ – Fiona McIntosh

‘In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn’t fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.’ – Nick Harkaway

‘There’s so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian ‘Super Tigers’ and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.’ – Kevin Kwan

‘As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.’ – Casey Neistat

‘I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.’ – Casey Neistat

‘I feel it’s important for the geeks to have a voice. ‘Dope’ is going to give a lot of people a new perspective.’ – Shameik Moore

‘It’s great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That’s very different from when I was growing up – it was all like, ‘Stand by your man.” – Corin Tucker

”Viceroy’ is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.’ – Gurinder Chadha

”90210′ was looking at teenagers from a perspective that hadn’t really been seen on television, though it had been seen in movies like some John Hughes films. I don’t know if you want to say ‘90210’ was real, but what the characters were going through was relatable – in a very glamorous environment.’ – Darren Star

”The Fifth Gospel’ is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I’m not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.’ – Ian Caldwell

‘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.’ – Annalee Newitz

‘My political view really comes from a biblical perspective.’ – Richie Furay

‘For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective – on history, on crime, on art, on love.’ – John Edgar Wideman

‘I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers.’ – Elliot Ackerman

‘I’m lucky that I’m inside the fashion industry and see clothes from a different perspective than the traditional consumer. Being able to curate, edit, and style product to make my own look is a privilege, but something I think men are becoming more aware of how to do.’ – Simon Spurr

‘In big battle scenes, like ‘King Arthur’, you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they’re not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you’ll find some poor little sod, who didn’t want to be there, anyway, with his head split.’ – Michael Foreman

‘We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.’ – Guilherme Leal

‘In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.’ – Romesh Gunesekera

‘Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘I don’t find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I’m terrible or good enough for me.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.’ – Ellen Datlow

‘Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn’t real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.’ – Hannah Ware

‘The ambition of ‘Ten Thousand Saints,’ Eleanor Henderson’s debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo

‘From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.’ – Maelle Gavet

‘It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid’s perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take.’ – Steve Sheinkin

‘It’s an important tool to focus where we’re excavating. It gives us a much bigger perspective on archaeological sites. We have to think bigger, and that’s what the satellites allow us to do.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven’t seen through before. That can be very powerful.’ – G. Willow Wilson

‘I’m a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.’ – N. Murray Edwards

‘It’s everyone’s dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.’ – David Cameron

‘Coming from a YouTube perspective, a lot of times you kind of limit yourself and think, ‘Oh, artists from the real world wouldn’t want to work with someone who’s made their career on YouTube.’ But more and more, I’m realizing that artists from both sides are learning that we can benefit from each other.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘How I thrive is very simple. My son brought my perspective back to focusing on and appreciating the simple things in life. It’s about just being with my family – whether that’s waking up in bed next to my husband under the comforter and just hugging or walking down the street and holding my son’s hand.’ – Tia Mowry

‘There’s a bit more of a safe distance when you’re making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more and think: ‘Okay, how do I consider this?’ – Tom McCarthy’ – Tom McCarthy

‘After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.’ – Josh Dun

‘Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.’ – Stef Wertheimer

‘Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘This year-in-space mission was a profound challenge for all involved, and it gave me a unique perspective and a lot of time to reflect on what my next step should be on our continued journey to help further our capabilities in space and on Earth.’ – Scott Kelly

‘As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.’ – Halsey

‘At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the ‘Evening News’ as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.’ – Steve Capus

‘I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don’t blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.’ – Nate Powell

‘I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I’m interesting. I have perspective about me.’ – Judy Garland

‘Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective – with a sense of wonderment.’ – Juhi Chawla

‘I hate when books are written from the wrong perspective; when they’re written by adults for tweenagers. Like, do you truly remember what it’s like to be 12? No, not really.’ – Zendaya

‘My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘That really has been my message over the years: ‘Hey, we’re all in this together, so let’s laugh about it a little, please.’ It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you’re coming from.’ – Jeff MacNelly

‘You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn’t have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.’ – Jennine Cap√≥ Crucet

‘We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.’ – Angela Merkel

‘We need a really credible perspective toward long-term de-carbonization.’ – Angela Merkel

‘It is always the case that when something emerges – which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different – then people say, ‘She hasn’t told us this yet’ and ‘She hasn’t told us that yet.’ I don’t know – maybe there are other things I didn’t talk about because no one ever asked me.’ – Angela Merkel

‘As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu’s perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.’ – Rob Portman

‘It’s a privilege to serve in Washington, D.C., but I never lose sight of what the Lord has called me to do in my life. And that is to be, first a husband, and then a father, and succeed there from His perspective, and He’ll take care of everything else.’ – Mike Pence

‘Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Whether it’s a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can’t really find anywhere else.’ – Conrad Anker

‘Everything from Washington’s handling of the N.S.A., as well as Apple launching a new iPhone. These events can move billions of dollars in the stock market, and it seems as if the East Coast and West Coast are merging in some respects, so we felt like we needed a little bit more from a content perspective to match what our audience was looking for.’ – Kayla Tausche

‘I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the interests of 51 percent of the population is covering such divergent experiences, perspectives, and priorities that, if you’re doing it right, people are going to be arguing within it.’ – Rebecca Traister

‘Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.’ – Joel Benenson

‘We’ve heard some things from Pope Francis that are not fully supportive of free enterprise capitalism. That should be a problem from an American perspective.’ – Steve King

‘From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it’s very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one’s very busy.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he’s super sharp.’ – Hannibal Buress

‘I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.’ – Brie Larson

‘Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren’t the same.’ – Jessica Ennis-Hill

‘I do think you need to understand a character’s motivation and perspective.’ – J. K. Simmons

‘After speaking with community leaders, faith leaders, and voters across the District during my campaign, I came to understand that visiting Israel was necessary to obtain a full and proper perspective on our relationship with our strongest ally in the Middle East.’ – John Delaney

‘Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and they can raise children in a way that’s best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.’ – Bill Flores

‘Before being elected to Congress, I was a mayor, and it’s this perspective that makes me certain that Ed FitzGerald is the right kind of leader to get Ohio back on track.’ – Marcia Fudge

‘My travels have made clear that people across this state – from every political perspective – are looking for a new leader in Albany.’ – Chris Gibson

‘I’m not one who wants to micromanage the Capitol Police whatsoever. However, if they see or feel that there are some greater opportunities to provide the same, if not better, safety and security for folks, I think Capitol Police should explore all those options – but not just focus that from a cost perspective.’ – Tom Graves

‘Any film that you see that has any progressive spirits that is made by any people of color or a woman is a triumph in and of itself. Whether you agree with it or not. Something that comes with some point of view and some personal perspective from a woman or a person of color is a unicorn.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘So often in sitcoms, it’s like, ‘Oh, that husband of mine. He just screwed up again.’ They just have to tolerate each other. It’s not the most fun to play from my perspective. But by the same token, you can’t be like, ‘We’re just like Romeo and Juliet, always in love.” – David Denman

‘When I came here in 2008, nobody knew who I was. I didn’t know who I was. I was just enjoying the moment and I won. So, now, coming back being the person I am with all the accomplishments, it kind of puts things in perspective.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.’ – Nadia Comaneci

‘I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.’ – Selena Gomez

‘Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I’m messier – and wetter. It’s the female perspective. I’m not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.’ – Marilyn Minter

‘From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft’s doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff’s absolutely essential to the company’s future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud.’ – Steve Ballmer

‘Without a doubt, the majority of historical period dramas tend to be told from a certain perspective. At least in America, black people have some visibility in period dramas, although it’s usually in the form of slaves or servitude.’ – David Harewood

‘It’s interesting that we assign the label ‘political’ to art that doesn’t just fit a mould of status quo. Is ‘Downton Abbey’ not political? That’s political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? ‘Downton Abbey’ is about class. It’s also about race.’ – Riz Ahmed

‘Put your choices in perspective.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘Nothing clears my head and puts things in perspective quite like a long, hard run.’ – Claire Holt

‘My perspective is cultural and world-based. It’s always been a global perspective.’ – Taj Mahal

‘I’ve always been able to put things in perspective.’ – Canelo Alvarez

‘When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I’ve always been one of those guys that thought ‘it will never happen to me.” – Brantley Gilbert

‘As a 10-year veteran of the NFL, I had a unique perspective weekly to see the heartfelt commitment of the fan. Regardless of years of disappointing and winless seasons, the true fans remained die-hard in their loyalty to ‘the Team.” – Burgess Owens

‘When you lose things like football, which is the game I love – and this is the most important thing in my life – it really puts everything in perspective.’ – Austin Seferian-Jenkins

‘Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust and to resolve the conditions for a peace perspective between Palestinians and Israelis.’ – Reuven Rivlin

‘Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we’re discovering, it’s been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, ‘Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.’ And it doesn’t matter if it’s from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.’ – Ali Shaheed Muhammad

‘I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren’t.’ – Rae Carson

‘As Asian-Americans, we just don’t often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person’s perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That’s just how I was cast; that’s how I was employed.’ – Ruthie Ann Miles

‘Women are so – maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they’re so connected to life in a way that men aren’t. They’re able to give birth, have children, and it’s literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I’ve done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that. I was a boy; I didn’t find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam War.’ – Philip Roth

‘I’ve just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we’re missing by not having more women directing.’ – David Oyelowo

‘If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.’ – David Oyelowo

‘There’s so much that goes into a film that I feel like it’s a bit arrogant to say, ‘Oh, I never watch my own movies.’ Well, it’s not just you. There’s a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.’ – Felicity Jones

‘It’s not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.’ – Alain de Botton

‘From an animation perspective, it doesn’t get better than Pixar. You’re working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that’s required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.’ – Jeffrey Wright

‘I actually had someone say to me, ‘Lynn, you’re going to have very good days, and you’re going to have very bad days. But It’s rare that things are as good as they look, and it’s rare that things are as bad as they seem.’ So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.’ – Lynn Good

‘It’s important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.’ – Lynn Good

‘Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.’ – Dierks Bentley

‘Guys hurt us first! There’s always more to the story. We don’t have that on the radio. You can’t turn on the radio and hear what’s really going on. You’re going to hear the perspective from a guy.’ – Tink

‘Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it’s nice that other perspectives are coming back.’ – Maren Morris

‘From a creative perspective, we’ve been very fortunate in that doing it the ‘VGHS’ way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.’ – Freddie Wong

‘Fame is a problem of perspective.’ – Ethan Canin

‘Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘I’ve always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.’ – Jake Arrieta

‘I try very hard to thank my lucky stars and keep it all in proportion and perspective, but it can be very tiring having a smiley face all day.’ – George Michael

‘Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.’ – Viktor Orban

‘I think, from a woman’s perspective, that my interest as an investor and the way that I relate to entrepreneurs is a little bit different.’ – Aileen Lee

‘A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In ‘Weaker Girl,’ I was coming from a wounded healer’s perspective.’ – Banks

‘It may sound strange to say it of someone so famous, but I think Leonardo DiCaprio is underrated, particularly from an awards perspective. He is a very versatile actor. He started very young, and ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’ is one of my favourite films.’ – Will Poulter

‘I’m always interested in the moment when lives somehow accidentally cross. I think sometimes those accidental meetings can be small miracles; they can really change one’s perspective on that moment and on life.’ – Saskia de Brauw

‘There’s just something so special about ‘God Made Girls.’ It comes from a girl’s perspective, and there’s nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that’s what made us able to pick that song as a single.’ – RaeLynn

‘You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.’ – Jim Brown

‘I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.’ – Ken Cuccinelli

‘This Sonia Gandhi thing should be seen in perspective – the people of India have an emotional attachment to the family. And why not? Three of the five Congress prime ministers belong to that family. The people empathise with the family name.’ – Sharad Pawar

‘Whether that’s in communications or marketing or strategy, you need people to come in with a fresh perspective.’ – Steve Easterbrook

‘Fixing this broken system will take the perspective of someone who has actually solved problems. 31 years of manufacturing taught me how.’ – Ron Johnson

‘The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.’ – William H. Pryor

‘I don’t think I even have a clear perspective of how I’m depicted in the media.’ – Charlie Hunnam

‘It’s very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you’re constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.’ – Timothy Olyphant

‘Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.’ – Twinkle Khanna

‘Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.’ – Yami Gautam

‘We do need unity, and from my perspective as a minister myself, God has not forgotten America.’ – Alveda King

‘Everyone knows me by now. I love football. I am quite principled in that perspective. It is always difficult to find the perfect match, but I do feel this is the perfect match for me.’ – Robin Van Persie

‘Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.’ – Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

‘Obviously, I have to enjoy all I have. People depend on you, and now I can look back at everything I’ve gone through to get here with a different perspective.’ – Diego Costa

‘I’ve never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.’ – Jens Lekman

‘Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.’ – Jens Lekman

‘I know Peter Jackson a tiny-tiny bit from interviewing him about the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies over the years. When I was visiting the set of ‘The Return of the King,’ he let me be an extra so I could see filmmaking from a different perspective. I was a Rohan soldier.’ – Jeff Giles

‘If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.’ – Laura Dern

‘Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It’s having a counter-cultural perspective.’ – Ben Hopkins

‘My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it’s in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It’s the weirdest thing, ’cause you’re like, ‘It will never happen to me,’ and when it does, it’s like, ‘OK, wow.” – Maika Monroe

‘Working gives you this new perspective. You don’t take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don’t do too well on a history test, it’s not the end of the world.’ – Claire Danes

‘Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?’ – Diane Lane

‘I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.’ – Diane Lane

‘Usually, people who don’t have a broad perspective see gay people as servants – as people who are there to make them look good.’ – RuPaul

‘I’d rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I’m American. I have no perspective.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘I never quite fit in – at least, from my own perspective, you know.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘I think of the Tycho sound as something separate from the band. I think the methodology and approach to production I use on the Tycho records can be applied to a lot of things. But from a performance and songwriting perspective, yes, Tycho is a live band.’ – Tycho

‘I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.’ – Ro James

‘I listened to a lot of reggae music, a lot of Caribbean, a lot of gospel, a lot of rock, a lot of country, hip-hop… you know, so it just gave me perspective when it came to music and what I liked.’ – Ro James

‘There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.’ – K. Flay

‘I didn’t start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new musicians can have the chance to get into a studio, work with each other, and get their music noticed by a large audience.’ – Martin Garrix

‘If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO’s perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all times.’ – John T. Chambers

‘Franchises mean that you’re tied in. That’s a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.’ – Taron Egerton

‘Let me say right off the bat that I’m not what you would call a ‘tree hugger’ or a ‘bushes and bunnies’ environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales – although I do not denigrate that perspective either, and I really like whales.’ – Peter Navarro

‘My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective rooted in one of the most important concepts in economics – the need for government intervention in the presence of a market failure.’ – Peter Navarro

‘Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter’s birthday party.’ – Kevin Hassett

‘I personally think there’s going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data.’ – Mark Cuban

‘When you do a lyric for ‘April in Paris,’ those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don’t deal with complex music very well.’ – Al Jarreau

‘You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don’t let you listen to it – you gotta sneak into a car to listen to this guy rap. He changed my whole life, my whole perspective on music, so to more or less co-sign something that I’ve done is the ultimate childhood goal.’ – Jon Bellion

‘I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a writing perspective. There are things about those songs that do touch people in a way that a fun song can’t.’ – Luke Combs

‘It’s important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.’ – Brandon Webb

‘I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.’ – Mark Waid

‘When ‘If God Was a Banker’ became a success, it changed my entire perspective. I wanted to write more and wanted to be lot more successful as a writer.’ – Ravi Subramanian

‘The BBC is very prestigious from an American’s perspective, so I’m a big fan of it.’ – Michael Landes

‘There’s something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.’ – Reg E. Cathey

‘The news is so instantly available to us without delay, interpretation, or a filter. What is hot right now is streamed live without context or perspective.’ – Essie Davis

‘From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.’ – Kevin Feige

‘It’s when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.’ – Amy Purdy

‘I haven’t always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.’ – Patty Smyth

‘Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They’ve been through different things in love. They’ve cried about different things.’ – Luis Fonsi

‘I’ve kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I’m filled with rage. It’s so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.’ – John Grant

‘Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.’ – Jason Isbell

‘There’s a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, ‘I’m going to play through it.’ It’s probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate’s perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.’ – Vernon Wells

‘In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘I’m not a bleeding-heart feminist, but I do like to call out that stuff in my act. It’s nice when you find a perspective that no one has hit on.’ – Nikki Glaser

‘I’m trying to make the case to voters across the political spectrum that someone who brings a younger perspective – a fresher perspective… can change the culture in Washington more effectively than someone who has run for office 9 or 10 times.’ – Jon Ossoff

‘As a leader, you sit at a different level of perspective from your team, either with line of sight higher and across the organization structure or connected at more senior levels with your clients and partners.’ – Chris Fussell

‘From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.’ – Adam Grant

‘The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, ‘Chill out, man. That’s out of line.” – Gary Goetzman

‘What’s happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can’t get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.’ – Jimmy Iovine

‘When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.’ – Washed Out

‘The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.’ – Washed Out

‘I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they’re oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘One classic mistake is when people give the impression that they just want a job, not this job or this company in particular. From a hiring manager’s perspective, you’re looking for someone who is excited about this role or this company.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something… to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you’re thinking about, what you want, and what you’re afraid of can often help them give guidance.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘I really do see the sharks evolving their perspective. In the early days of the show, if you brough them an app, they would’ve turned their noses up. But now they know how indispensable those apps are, even to their own traditional businesses.’ – Chris Sacca

‘Certainly what happened to the dinosaurs was not good – that was a terrible day for the dinosaurs, very sad. But I have to say, there are a lot of threats we face as people and, as someone who lives in Los Angeles, I’m personally more likely to die from driving on the freeway than I am from an asteroid, so you have to put that risk in perspective.’ – Carrie Nugent

‘Honest truth is I didn’t really know from year to year what people were making. I think that was the best perspective to have.’ – Tim Duncan

‘I try to keep a Sabbath perspective.’ – Eric Weddle

‘We’ve always been interested in the commentary on politics and society and how comedy always sort of cuts that with a nice laugh, and the perspective it brings.’ – Sean Hayes

‘I don’t think we are changing the world here, but we might be influencing a perspective.’ – Erin Foster

‘Increasingly, over the past ten years, I’ve come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global.’ – David Crystal

‘My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we’re the center of everything.’ – Mae Jemison

”Slumdog’ initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.’ – Arfi Lamba

‘The ‘Billy On The Street’ persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child – obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.’ – Billy Eichner

‘I don’t think my voice has changed very much when it comes to things that I create. It’s just my perspective, my point of view, and I guess that really hasn’t changed very much. Luckily, it hasn’t had to change in order for me to work.’ – Billy Eichner

‘When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child’s perspective, where they seem far away.’ – Billy Eichner

‘I love Canada. The natural environment here is so inspiring. It never ceases to make me feel grounded and calm and to help put things in perspective. And I love Canadians. A lot.’ – Jodi Balfour

‘In marriage, it’s best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective.’ – Gillian Flynn

‘From my perspective, the world’s shaped me more than anything else. It’s a feedback loop.’ – Chelsea Manning

‘I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.’ – Draymond Green

‘When we talk about more access to birth control, a lot of times that means more funding for Planned Parenthood, and we know that’s a touchy subject, so I certainly see that perspective and agree with a lot of conservatives on it.’ – Tomi Lahren

‘I learned from McDonald’s that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn’t superior, it might not matter.’ – Mary Dillon

‘This is unproven technology, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t interact with tokens – from an investor and security perspective.’ – Olaf Carlson-Wee

‘CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.’ – Randall L. Stephenson

‘From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.’ – Jared Polis

‘I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.’ – James P. Gorman

‘From our perspective, just narrowly from the financial sector and from our institution, there’s nothing good about Brexit.’ – James P. Gorman

‘I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.’ – Heather Bresch

‘Working with some outside consultants or people that really can bring you an external perspective or a benchmarking to identify opportunities is a really good way to work.’ – Denise Morrison

‘Any time you have significant injury, it is about the perspective, how you attack it.’ – Seth Rollins

‘The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work – our passion is public projects, wherever they are.’ – Thomas Heatherwick

‘If you look at it now from the Google perspective, how do you make billions of dollars? Hundreds of millions doesn’t count anymore; how do you make billions? And that’s the question we’ve been tasked. Is this a Google-scale business, or is this a nice business for a startup?’ – Noam Bardin

‘I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.’ – G-Eazy

‘As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.’ – Jamie S. Miller

‘In the high-stakes and elitist world of music collecting and fandom, we operate from an ab ovo perspective. The seed, the first incarnation – that is the most pure, the most lauded. Minutemen trumps Firehose, Throwing Muses beats Belly, Joy Division over New Order, Operation Ivy ruled Rancid, Undertones instead of That Petrol Emotion.’ – Carrie Brownstein

‘Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there’s this push to be cool or be what you’re expected to be. There’s a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that’s an important thing for young children to hear growing up.’ – Chance The Rapper

‘We started Marley Coffee from a farm perspective, and ever since, we’ve been doing things in a sustainable way and organically.’ – Rohan Marley

‘I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven’t read my work before, to get a new perspective.’ – Owen King

‘Typically, there’s this perspective among writers – and black writers: there’s this idea that there is one person – and maybe beyond writers – among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘People review my comic books. People review every article I write – ‘The Atlantic’ even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of ‘Between the World and Me’ was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

”Roots’ focuses on a particular group of people who defy the odds and win, eventually, even if it isn’t in their lifetimes. This is, for me, a very positive story and a very empowering one, if only we have that perspective on it.’ – Malachi Kirby

‘It’s just something I’ve always loved to do: talk basketball. It’s easy for me to give my perspective, my analyst approach to it, because even when I played, I would watch film, talk about the game.’ – Paul Pierce

‘I’m a basketball junkie and a real historian of the game, so for me to get a chance to express it and give my perspective on a national stage, I’m really enjoying it.’ – Paul Pierce

‘As an actor, I just go off the director. I never ask how big the part is. I don’t look at it from the perspective of, ‘Is this going to be good for my career?’ I just look for directors, and I think part of that is I knew I always wanted to be a director.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘It’s a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That’s not the case. We live in a world that’s broken, where there’s disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.’ – Danny Gokey