Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Michael Urie

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

Michael Pollan

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food.

Nnedi Okorafor

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

Mike Tyson

People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?

Terry Pratchett

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Plato

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Mary E. Pearson

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

Pharrell Williams

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Mariska Hargitay

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

Max Lucado

From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.

Michael Haneke

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Martin Winterkorn

It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject.

Melody Beattie

Perspective will come in retrospect.

Mark Zuckerberg

You grow more when you get more people's perspective.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.

Nate Parker

Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.

Morgan Saylor

When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.

Morihei Ueshiba

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

Mike Leigh

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.

Lance Armstrong

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

Lisa Murkowski

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

Liev Schreiber

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.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

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.

Hedi Slimane

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

Eric Kandel

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Eric Kripke

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Eric Bogosian

From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.