Changed Perspective Quotes

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

There are a lot of people that never thought I was going to be the guy that I am now. Now when I see them, it's fun to see how people are. I don't think they're being fake. I think now they just see me from a different eye.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.

And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

I know this sounds weird, but getting hurt was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It really gave me a different perspective. Before, everything was going how it was supposed to be and I wasn't really appreciative of what I was doing and what it took to be there. The injury grounded me in a lot of different ways. The rehab process makes you stronger on all fronts, mentally and physically. I feel stronger and a better person for it. I would never wish it on anyone, but I don't wish I could take it back.

Putting you into a virtual world really allows you to think differently.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

Having a son makes everything so much more easy. You don't worry about golf as much. You don't worry about anything as much. The focus is more on him.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself!

I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

I think being a mom changed me, and now it's not just about what I want to do and what's sort of interesting, but what I absolutely have to do.

I'm not a big gambler anymore. I like to do it. I enjoy it instead of trying to make money off of it, because I realized you can't make money gambling.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.