Top 620 Perspective Quotes

If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there’s no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it’s better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.
Roger Deakins
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
Steve Jobs
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country’s security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
Oscar Fernandes
I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they’re oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
‘Viceroy’ is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.
Gurinder Chadha
From a creative perspective, we’ve been very fortunate in that doing it the ‘VGHS’ way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.
Freddie Wong
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it’s all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Doug Harvey
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
Tony Blair
I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I’m keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
Jill Abramson
I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
Taylor Schilling
I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you’re going through.
Soledad O’Brien
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it’s actually not out of step.
Shepard Fairey
You’ve got to go out there and play the game the way it’s supposed to be played. Then you get people to like you and appreciate your work by just going out there and competing every down. Jerry Rice was looked at in that perspective. He went out there and was a hard-working guy. He was going to give it his all.
Julio Jones
I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
Taylor Swift
I’ve never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I’m pretty balanced.
Sting
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
‘Thirteen’ was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and imperfections and what it was like growing up. It was from one kid’s perspective and not a well rounded one. You get older, and it’s like, ‘How dare I portray my father as being a totally vacant, careless schmuck?’
Nikki Reed
The news is so instantly available to us without delay, interpretation, or a filter. What is hot right now is streamed live without context or perspective.
Essie Davis
Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.
Elvis Mitchell
Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It’s a progression of some sort.
John Hurt
The transition to WWE has been an incredible road. It’s been great, it’s been difficult, it’s been motivating, and it has allowed me as a person to just completely see myself differently and allowed me to grow in a different perspective with their input.
Aleister Black
From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only to benefit Fosun, but to benefit all private enterprises, especially proposals to help small to medium-sized companies.
Guo Guangchang
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.
Carmen Electra
My husband’s family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it’s just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.
Sarah Wayne Callies
It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.
Felicity Jones
Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That'

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That’s the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
Annalee Newitz
My political view really comes from a biblical perspective.
Richie Furay
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I’ve had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I’ve flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.
Norman Foster
Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
Taylor Hanson
I’m a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.
Brandon Stanton
Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
Mark Wahlberg
It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest.
Anthony Edwards
It’s important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.
Brandon Webb
My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.
Guy Kawasaki
At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the ‘Evening News’ as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.
Steve Capus
This is unproven technology, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t interact with tokens – from an investor and security perspective.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
Jordan Peele
The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work – our passion is public projects, wherever they are.
Thomas Heatherwick
It all comes down to perspective. When I get crabby about something, like the delay that was driving me crazy because I told my kids I’d be home for dinner, I have to remind myself where it fits in the scheme of things. We have to say, ‘That’s life,’ which can sometimes be comforting.
Julie Foudy
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
Timothee Chalamet
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It’s not just one disease – there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
Anne Wojcicki
There are always things to examine. What’s great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.
Fred Frith
My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. Flay
Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, ‘Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?’
Andie MacDowell
I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Dial M for Murder,’ and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.
Dario Argento
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.
Christopher Morley
One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren’t so apparent from the ground.
Sonny Perdue
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.
Chen Shui-bian
I’ve definitely grown a lot as an individual, as a man, and as a father, and that perspective needs to be shared and put out there.
Xzibit