Perspective Quotes - Page 23

• So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Church, Membership, Firsts

  Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.39, B&H Publishing Group

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• I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.

  Wes Nisker

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Brain

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• EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

  Kengo Kuma

  Urban

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• As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs

  Challenges, Needs, World

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs (2010). “Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World”, p.7, ASCD

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• Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Black And White, Color, People

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• One of the blessings of the temple is the perspective that it provides. When we go to the house of the Lord, we leave all of our cares and problems at the door. And when we come back out, they’re still there. We have to pick them back up and they haven’t changed, but what has changed is us.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Blessing, Doors, House

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• The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.

  Adyashanti

  Compassion, Vision, Separation

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• There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Objectivity, Knowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.555, Modern Library

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• Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

  Debbie Ford

  Views, Lenses, World

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• You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Fields, Take A Chance

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013

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• But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

  Meher Baba

  Sight, Tiny, Sun

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Diversity, Design

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• Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Design

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• Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Country, Voice, Creating

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• You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.

  Leon Daudet

  Opening Up, Ducks, Hands

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

  R. D. Laing

  Healing, Doors, Way

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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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• Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

  Jean M. Auel

  Book, Simple, Historical

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• First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Spiritual, Jobs, Successful

  "Shilpa Shetty: 'My spiritual approach to finance'". Interview with Mark Anstead, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 14, 2008.

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• The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, People, Focus

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• Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

  Rumi

  Mean, Men, Snakes

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