Broadening Perspective Quotes

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

If your thinking is limited, your life will be limited.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

We expand what we focus on.

I try to take off the rose-colored glasses and view it in all facets, but I probably would be lying if I didn't say that probably the way in for a film with me is the performance. But I have been on juries where you have to give Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography. So you do have to put on several different hats and I try to broaden my scope. And what's great is, when you're in a room full of people who are not your milieu, so to speak, you find yourself speaking in a way that you do discover a slightly discerning eye.