Fresh Outlook Quotes

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

...New Beginning to the same old story

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

Forget the past.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.

You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

I like to approach every day like it's my first, so this morning when I woke up I covered my body with red gelatin.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.