Perspective Change Quotes

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

Evening words are not like to morning.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

When I started in WWE, I was a 24-year-old kid and it was all kind of a whirlwind. I never had the chance to step back and look at it from the outside and assess things from a different level.

When I was young, I would drive so fast. Now I see it a different way.

When I became vegan 5 years ago, it was truly eye opening. I think it's all about perspective, really.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

As we get older, things seem less important.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.

Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.

I think everything bad that happens can be good in a way, if you're thinking about it after a while.

It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.