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• John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  War, Men, Voice

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• An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

  Criss Jami

  Different, Logic, Artistic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.

  Albert Paley

  Creating, Objects

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• We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

  Justin Somper

  Helping, Determined, Those We Love

  Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.300, Hachette UK

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• Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Home, Heart, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.

  Emily Yoffe

  Crazy, People, Flaws

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

  Antoni Tapies

  Artist, Experience, World

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• These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God’s Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.

  Jordan Rubin

  Biblical, Simple, Inspire

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• A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

  Alan Kay

  Views, Point Of View

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• The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Views, Mind

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Reality, Men, Vanity

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson", edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.

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• Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

  William Saroyan

  Myth, Sooner Or Later, Defined

  "Memories of the Depression". Book by William Saroyan, 1981.

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• Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

  Denis Diderot

  Artist, Two, Quality

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• In the midst of events there is no perspective.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Events, Midst

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.543, Penguin UK

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• Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

  Lisa Genova

  Funny Things, Bending, Stretching

  Lisa Genova (2013). “Love Anthony”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Many common problems are caused by wrong attitudes. People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. Naturally you won't be happy that way. You can only be happy when you see things in proper perspective: all human beings are of equal importance in God's sight, and have a job to do in the divine plan.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Jobs, Attitude, Sight

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.61, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Pain, Believe

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

  Anton Corbijn

  Character, Ideas, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Thor: The Dark World - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

  Tony Robbins

  Kids, Divorce, Love Of My Life

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Reading, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

  Sara Genn

  Travel, Backyards, Grants

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• The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, World, Lessons

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• Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.

  Daniel Levitin

  Art, Giving, Elements

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.

  John French Sloan

  School, Artist, Drawing

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