Perspective Quotes - Page 15

• There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

  Amelia Barr

  Inspirational, Fate, Opportunity

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.197, Litres

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• Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Country, Differences, Debtors

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• Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Thinking, Ironic

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• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Taken, Kyoto Protocol, Ideas

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• Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

  Joseph Hall

  Spiritual, Distance, Eye

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.154

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• The perspective is more important than the perception

  Amit Abraham

  Perception, Important

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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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• Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Philosophy, Stupid

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• To the designer, great design is beautiful design. A significant amount of effort must be placed into making the product attractive. To the client, great design is effective. It must bring in customers and meet the goals put forth to the designer in the original brief. To the user, great design is functional. It’s easy to read, easy to use and easy to get out of it what was promised Truly great design, then, is when these three perspectives are considered and implemented equally to create a final product that is beautiful, effective and functional.

  Joshua Johnson

  Beautiful, Goal, Effort

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• But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

  George Smoot

  Simple, Someday, Humans

  "The God Particle, At the Heart of All Matter". ngm.nationalgeographic.com. March 2008.

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• Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Giving, Stay Positive

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Way, Assumption

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1997.

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• Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer and more complex patterns of activity; an esthetic heightening of anticipated realizations; a steady lengthening of the future; a faith in cosmic perspectives.

  Lewis Mumford

  Love, Faith, Opposites

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• Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their significance within the whole of life, of society, of spirituality, of history, of nature. In all merely partial or fragmentary perspectives, there necessarily remain undigested irrational factors, surds that one is merely tolerating and not truly respecting as essential and integral to the whole of what we are.

  Kenny Smith

  Love, Philosophy, Essentials

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• Perseverance and perspective until victory.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Perseverance, Victory

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• Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Two, People

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• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Another Man, One Man

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

  Mark Viduka

  Football, Kids, Winning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective.

  William G. Taylor

  Travel, Traveller

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• Love is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark. When you lose the path that lights your way, you feel that you have died, but I assure you, you have not. You are reaching out for help or you would not have found this page. So red these quotations, allow yourself to feel your pain and cry out your loss and anguish. As you let it go, you will find the strength and courage to put your relationship in perspective and move on.

  Laura Ramirez

  Pain, Moving, Loss

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• Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

  John W. Snow

  Moving, Thinking, Energy

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

  Max Lucado

  Wisdom, Fall, Answers

  Max Lucado (1999). “The Applause of Heaven: Discover the Secret to a Truly Satisfying Life”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  Dabney Coleman

  Acting, Students, Should

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• Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Inspirational, Adventure, Challenges

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• If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.

  John Naisbitt

  Feet, Fields, Like You

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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