The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.
You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.
I always say that at some times you can lose perspective.
If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.
There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.
Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.
When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
