Perspective Quotes - Page 25

• Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

  Pat McCrory

  Return Back, People, Helping

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• I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Different, Littles, Youth

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• In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

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• It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Doe, Matter, Happens

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Caring, Looks

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Country, Home

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• For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Past, Night

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• The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

  Charles Hummel

  Motivational, Loss, Light

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• If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Faces, Generations

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Division, Consciousness

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• If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

  Amy Dickinson

  Disappointment, Women, Things Change

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• Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

  Amy Dickinson

  Lost Love, Women, Long

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• There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.

  El-P

  Thinking, Differences, Way

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

  Judy Woodruff

  Stage, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.

  Guy Pearce

  Careers, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Dinner, Spending Time

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Song, Wind, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You become sort of insulated in this bubble when you're working on something that it's hard to have an outsider's perspective on what works and what doesn't so it's always good to see what other people think.

  John Francis Daley

  Thinking, People, Outsiders

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

  Elia Kazan

  Europe, America, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Views, Icons, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

  Jill Tarter

  Differences, Mirrors, Helping

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• When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Gun, People

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• The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, World, Difficult

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

  Charles Jencks

  Space, Elements, Matter

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