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Perspective Quotes

The view changes depending on where you stand.

This perspective quotes collection opens with the idea that being 'locked up' is relative — some free people are more trapped than those behind bars. See Life quotes for related reflections.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Quotes by Tom Reed

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...

Quotes by Tom Hanks

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

Quotes by Timothee Chalamet

In 1946, the year I was born, Yankee Stadium was only 23 years old. But from my perspective as a boy, it had been around forever. At age seven, I saw it for the first time. As I grew older...

Quotes by Thomas Hauser

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

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.

Quotes by Ted Koppel

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...

Quotes by Tatyana Tolstaya

I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here.

Quotes by Tanya Saracho

Living, breathing, and being present is the practice that can lead us to having a full and authentic in-the-body experience. If we can shift our perspective from being separate to being part of it all, psychological hang-ups, insecurities, fears, and...

Quotes by Tara Stiles

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.

Quotes by Tamsin Greig

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

Quotes by Taj Mahal

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

Quotes by Tabu

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

Quotes by Suzanne Vega

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

Quotes by Suzy Bogguss

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...

Quotes by Susie Orbach

When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would wear and how much weight I wanted to lose. I lost my perspective.

Quotes by Susannah Cahalan

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...

Quotes by Susanna Fogel

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...

Quotes by Sue Grafton

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.

Quotes by Steve King

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.

Quotes by Steve Daines

Frequently Asked Questions

What different perspectives do these quotes offer?
This mix covers a view that being "locked up" is a matter of perspective, since someone free can be more mentally and emotionally imprisoned than someone behind bars; a story about moving to Europe as a child and having one's perspective validated there; a reflection on how we have many words for looking but none for listening; and a view that getting older brings a valuable perspective on things that once felt urgent.
Is there a quote about being "locked up" being a matter of perspective?
Yes: "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."
Is there a quote about moving to Europe as a child and having a perspective validated there?
Yes: "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."
Is there a quote about having many words for looking but none for listening?
One quote points out that there are many nouns for the act of looking - such as a glance, a glimpse, or a peep - but no equivalent noun for the act of listening.
Where can I find more quotes like these?
If you like these, check out our Look and Life quotes pages.

Other entries touch on how moving between countries can validate a viewpoint instantly, and how getting older brings useful distance from the urge to constantly achieve. Continue with Look quotes or Good quotes.