Quotes about Perspective

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

I'm not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

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.

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

Funny how a crisis can put life into perspective, fine-tune the eye of the heart, like laser surgery. In less than a minute everything comes into a twenty-twenty view.

Nothing in the world like the spark between men and women. What a marvelous and mysterious combination. Two sides of the same coin, you know. We both want the same thing, to give and receive love, to be cared for, respected. We just come at it from a different point of view.

Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.

If you didn't miss where you've been, it didn't mean that much to you.