Quotes about Perspective

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior—we can only change our own.

Now I'm really not getting it." "That's why you should talk to my mom. We've both received Christ and—" "Received Christ? You're not gonna be like those people that go around knocking on everybody's door, are you?

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

If you sing to one person as if you're singing to a million, you will soon have an audience of a million.

Obviously, with 'The Room,' I wasn't on set thinking 'I'm going to be Daniel Day Lewis' playing Mark, but explaining how I even got involved in the movie shows how we all get stuck in situations as actors - and this one ended up being one of the craziest.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because that force, which is still present but more subdued, was very in your face, and we needed to take a step back just to get some clarity.