It was probably right after I made my comeback – after retiring post-2008 Olympics – when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective. – Alicia Sacramone
Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you’re kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan’s perspective. – Cal Ripken, Jr.
I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk. – Christine Quinn
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be ‘important.’ The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn’t. – Akhil Sharma
I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general. – Miguel
I’m a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I’m not so good at perspective. – Garry Trudeau
Sometimes I feel like I’m lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things. – Eric Dane
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers. – Elliot Ackerman
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. – Cheryl Strayed
I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can’t interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they’re gone and people are more willing to talk about them. – David Maraniss
If you represent the Earth’s lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June – a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. – Martin Rees
As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson’s patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming. – David Perlmutter
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. – Damon Hill
As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they’ve brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women. – Dee Dee Myers
When I was auditioning for ‘Gotham,’ I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective – it’s been around for 75 years, which is a long time. – Cory Michael Smith
I haven’t turned into some rich monster. I’ve kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It’s hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money. – Christine McVie
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. – Margaret Haddix
Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I’ve become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well. – Danica Patrick
I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That’s how I live my life. I can roll with the boys. – Elle King
You know, I’m a pretty mellow guy. I’m pretty easy-going. I see everyone’s perspective. – Paul Walker
From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death. – Drew Barrymore
You can’t come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That’s why you’ll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
Japan is very cosmopolitan – it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental. – F. Sionil Jose
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing. – Ellen Datlow