Life Perspectives Quotes

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Life, as I see it, is R-rated.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it's how you perceive it.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

I found this website, The Experience Project, which has people write first-hand experiences of their life and what they went through. There would be a 75-year-old man who talked about his childhood or a 15-year-old girl who talked about what she is going through right now. It was amazing to read their personal thoughts.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.

Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.

I've met people from all walks of life.

It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.