Perspective Quotes - Page 22

• Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

  Frederick Franck

  Different, World, Seeing

  Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

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• 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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• 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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• Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Views, Opinion, Point Of View

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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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• My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

  Andre Agassi

  Prize Money, Tennis, Feelings

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• But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?

  Gregory Corso

  Cat, Light, Care

  Gregory Corso (1962). “Selected poems”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

  George Herbert

  Thinking

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• Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

  Cloris Leachman

  Judging, Gold, Sometimes

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• My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

  Ursula Burns

  New York, Smart, Black

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• Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Men, Perfect

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.188, GENERAL PRESS

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• I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

  Ronnie Wood

  Cracks, Use, Diplomats

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• Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Pain, Book, Islamic

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• All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Giving, Reason

  John Henry Newman (1843). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.254

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• Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

  Michael Josephson

  Fun, Pleasure, Fulfillment

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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• That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Stars, Evil

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort of diagnostic test that will precisely locate them. My impression is that this perspective represents a breakdown in the church. It reflects a church where we are running around as self-actualizing individuals rather than uniting as a God-glorifying community.

  Edward T Welch

  Running, Spiritual, Self

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• Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema's vocabulary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Opportunity, Vocabulary

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

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• On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Views, Hands

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.

  Peter Greenaway

  Sight, Suffering, Body

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