Perspective Quotes - Page 24

• Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

  Thomas Holcroft

  Life, Attitude, Weight Loss

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• Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.

  Terry Taylor

  Character, Mean, Angel

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• Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

  Charles Garfield

  Worst, Values

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• To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Mistake, Understanding, Opinion

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• Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

  Peter Shepherd

  Wisdom, Views, Truth Is

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• Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Self, Secret

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• It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.

  Hal Elrod

  Responsibility, Everything Happens For A Reason, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 08, 2010

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• What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Opportunity, Views

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• An empowering perspective gives birth to an empowered life.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Giving, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 26, 2009

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• In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

  David W. Orr

  Growth, Environmental, Climate

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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• I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

  Gideon Glick

  Art, Fun, Book

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

  Jason Calacanis

  Life, Stars, Simple

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• Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

  William James

  Sight, Shifting, Facts

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

  Saul Bellow

  Anxiety, Suffering, Scales

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.85, Penguin

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• Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sexually, Conditions, Terminal

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• Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.

  Georges Braque

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Unique, Understanding, Culture

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• It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

  Dale E. Turner

  Wise, Missing, Soldier

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• Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

  Paul Cezanne

  Sides, Spheres, Cylinders

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• Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Play, Stem

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• I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.

  Christopher Darden

  Thinking, Unique, Want

  "Darden promises book on Simpson, race issue". www.cnn.com. October 11, 1995.

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• People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.

  Thomas Frank

  Jobs, Betrayal, Mean

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• In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

  James Hillman

  Past, Race, Class

  "From Little Acorns: A Radical New Psychology". Interview with Scott London, weww.thesunmagazine.org. March 1998.

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• The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.

  Harry Reid

  Real, Justice, Different

  "Bush Picks Miers for Supreme Court". www.foxnews.com. October 04, 2005.

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• Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Laughter, Humor, Sight

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