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.
~By Sean Bean ~
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.
~By Konstantin Stanislavisky ~
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.
~By Frank Shorter ~
There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
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.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
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.
~By Steve Case ~
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.
~By Anne Northup ~
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.
~By Allen Klein ~
I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.
~By Charles James ~
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.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
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.
~By John Constable ~
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
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.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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.
~By David Gill ~
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
~By Steve Case ~
I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.
~By Nicholas Brendon ~
I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
~By Calvin Klein ~
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.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
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.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
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.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
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.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
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.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
~By Bill Richardson ~
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.
~By Grete Waitz ~
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
~By Alan Perlis ~
It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.
~By Kerry King ~
One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?
~By Greg Dworkin ~
I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
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.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
~By Alan Kay ~
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.
~By Rowan Williams ~
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.
~By Martha Beck ~
From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
~By John Fahey ~
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.
~By Herman Kahn ~
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.
~By Ted Koppel ~
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.
~By Christopher Morley ~
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.
~By Damon Hill ~
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
~By Tracey Emin ~
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
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.
~By Neil Diamond ~
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.
~By Herman Kahn ~
My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
~By Dave Davies ~
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.
~By John M. McHugh ~
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.
~By Bryce Dallas Howard ~
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
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.
~By Tom Hanks ~
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
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.
~By David Cronenberg ~
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.
~By Michael Kinsley ~
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.
~By Scott McCallum ~
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.
~By Roger B. Chaffee ~
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.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.
~By Elizabeth Wilson ~
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.
~By Steve Case ~
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.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
~By Owen Feltham ~
And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
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.
~By Debi Mazar ~
I still write the same way and have the same perspective.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
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.
~By Tim Reid ~
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.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
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.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .
~By Kool Moe Dee ~
I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
~By Holly Near ~
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.
~By John Rowland ~
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.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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.
~By Meg Ryan ~
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.
~By Steve Case ~
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.
~By Jody Watley ~
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.
~By Warren Farrell ~
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.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
~By John Clayton ~
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
~By Sting ~
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
~By Jodie Foster ~
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.
~By Joe Morton ~
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.
~By Joe Mays ~
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.
~By Jeffrey Wright ~
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.
~By Tim McGraw ~
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.
~By Christine Todd Whitman ~
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
~By Gregory Peck ~
From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
~By Daniel J. Bernstein ~
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.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
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.
~By Melissa Bean ~
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
~By David Korten ~
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.
~By Danny Bonaduce ~
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.
~By Sue Grafton ~
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.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
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.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
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.
~By Henry Reed ~
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.
~By John Podesta ~
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.
~By Carmen Electra ~
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
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'.
~By Holly Near ~
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