Perspective Quotes - Page 19

• Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Life Changing, People

  Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.41, Baker Books

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• We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Views, People, Decision

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• The way out is through the door you came in.

  R. D. Laing

  Healing, Doors, Way

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• A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Thinking, Alive, Rowing

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• Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern

  Bankei Yotaku

  Pulse, Patterns, Unborn

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• Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Running, Reality, Simplicity

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• There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

  Leon Kass

  Baby, Hype, Designer

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• How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

  Pat McBride

  Fall, Color, Important

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• I realize that in everything I was saying, that underneath my words was essentially, "why can't we be less judgemental and more like me." Which is judgemental and arrogant, to try and change somebody else's perspective just so that the world can seem better for you. It's important that we have these contrasts in life - nothing was ever created by being the same.

  Simon Amstell

  Judgemental, Important, Trying

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• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

  John Crowe Ransom

  New Year, Exercise, Years

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• You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.

  Chuck Zito

  Angel, Vote, Hell

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• It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Ideas, Advice, Cooperation

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• Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

  Orrin Hatch

  Hero, Taken, Fighting

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• The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

  DeForest Soaries

  Commitment, Government, Democracy

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• Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Thinking, Hopeful, Kind

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• I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

  Greg Egan

  Winning, Nominations, Given

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• It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!

  Kathy Bates

  Scripts, Wonderful, Terrific

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.

  J. B. MacKinnon

  Nature, Center Of The Universe, Humans

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• I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beautiful, Mother, Blessing

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• Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Father, Fighting, Doors

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• My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

  Kool Moe Dee

  Different, Manhattan

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• I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

  Hope Davis

  Giving, Stories, Love Story

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

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• The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Views

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