Perspective Quotes - Page 8

• One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Self, People, Trying

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

  Susan Griffin

  Serious, Circumstances

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• As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

  Ziggy Marley

  Artist, Use, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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  Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Unique, World, Matter

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• What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, White, Needs

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.

  Ice Cube

  Art, School, Understanding

  "Ice Cube Discusses His Collaboration With RareInk". Interview with Melinda Brocka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

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• Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

  Adam Fletcher

  Children, People, Adults

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• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

  Ted Koppel

  Loss, Pay, Way

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• I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective.
  I'm stardust.
  I'm golden brown.
  I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Golden, Stardust, Brown

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.217, Penguin

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• Everybody was ready to put Denver and Indianapolis in the championship game. We're the same team that went 15-1 last year and made it to the championship game. We're coming from a different perspective now, being on the road playing two tough road games. We all believed in one another, even if no one else did.

  Hines Ward

  Team, Years, Games

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• Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

  Ernest Cline

  Life, Stars, Saws

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.22, Random House

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• When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

  Sophia Amoruso

  Goal, Gains, Possibility

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.100, Penguin

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Years

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• I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

  Emma Bonino

  Mean, Rights, Individual

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• The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while.
  The truth is, we don’t know how taking a break frees up the mind, but it does: Somehow it freshens our little neurons, or perhaps it prompts the brain to create more cleverness molecules.
  If you can bear to let a short piece sit a week and a book-length work a month, do so. Longer is fine, too; some authors have abandoned manuscripts for years before unearthing them and realizing, ‘Hey, this isn’t bad,’ and renewing their energy for the project.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Book, Years, Brain

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• The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Trying, Mountain

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• When you commit yourself to living love, you feel at peace with yourself because you are at harmony with the flow of life. Viewing life from the highest perspective, you feel confident and secure. You realize that no matter how things may appear, you are loved and protected. You know you are one with God, and you bring your peace with you wherever you go. You're not looking for love, but for opportunities to love.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Opportunity, May

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• For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Korea, Numbers, Investment

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• The perspective is more important than the perception

  Amit Abraham

  Perception, Important

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• In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

  Jane Yolen

  Compassion, New Experiences, Differences

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• The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Art, Prayer, Distance

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• Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Years, Giving, Wells

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Inform yourself about animal issues, and listen to different perspectives on how to help animals. Don't latch onto the first opinion that you hear about what is the most urgent issue, or the best way to help animals. Read everything you can on the issues, and be critical when presented with facts. Take an honest look at what your talents, strengths, and passions are, and determine how they can be used to the greatest effect. Once you've informed yourself, do your own thinking. The best way for you to make a difference might not be obvious, and might be something that no one has thought of yet.

  Mark Middleton

  Passion, Animal, Thinking

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• Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you'll feel a new lightness and more joy.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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