Perspective Quotes - Page 27

• When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

  Arman

  Children, Drawing, Good Relationship

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• I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.

  Ted Martinez

  Determination, Frustration, Doubt

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• I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Religious, Thinking, America

  "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.

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• From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

  Max De Pree

  Betrayal, Leader, Serious

  Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.27, Crown Business

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• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Struggle, Principles, Needs

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• The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas.

  Henry Petroski

  Appreciation, Book, Reading

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• The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Space

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.155, University of Toronto Press

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• From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.

  Damon Lindelof

  Hate, Three, Minutes

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• Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Spiritual, Morning, Crazy

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• Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.

  Lin Yutang

  Mistake, Men, Laughing

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "I see the new crop of actresses and think, 'Aren’t we the same age?' Jennifer Aniston admits losing perspective and 'feeling old'" by By Andrea Magrath, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 4, 2012.

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• Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Years, Long

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• I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

  Donna Tartt

  Eerie, Long, Rising

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.523, Vintage

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• Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Father, Lying, Thinking

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories”, p.139, H. P. Lovecraft

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• No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.

  Roger Bacon

  Wise, Men, Length Of Life

  "Opus Tertium". Book by Roger Bacon, p. 91, 1267.

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• I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

  Gloria Estefan

  Kids, Self, Being Different

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• I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.

  Roger Ailes

  Reading, Giving, Interesting

  Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.82, Crown Business

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• It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

  Shinzo Abe

  Belief, Politician, Should

  "Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Humor, Thinking

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• This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

  Woody Allen

  Lying, Boys, Views

  YouTube Chanel "filmfestivals.com"/ "Woody Allen on life", www.youtube.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mistake, Taken

  Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.

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• Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Judgement, Intuition, Technique

  "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning" by Henry Mintzberg, hbr.org. 1994.

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• Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

  Owen Feltham

  Glasses, Hands, Long

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.32

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• I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.

  Jimmy Wales

  War, Drinking, Mean

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot readers' questions, slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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