Perspective Quotes - Page 30

• After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.

  Andrew Shue

  Loss, Space, Matter

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• From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Assuming

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

  Steve Case

  Keys, Skills, People

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• Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Good Night, Prayer, Men

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• In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

  Alexander Payne

  Honesty, Distance, Talking

  "Q&A: Alexander Payne on his life at the movies". Interview with Jake Coyle, yhoo.it. November 15, 2013.

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• I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Important, Able

  Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. March 31, 2008.

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• I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Research, Medical

  "John Cleese And The Key To Comedy". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2014.

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• The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.

  Sylvia Earle

  Years, Half, Four

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• I try to be true to myself yet still at the same time look at comments and look at what the fans have to say and kind of put it in perspective. I'm never someone whose not open for opinion, I'm always just down to make it work and see how we can do things but at the end of the day I always want to make sure it represents me. It's really about just being humble and not selling yourself on being there already.

  Kid Ink

  Humble, The End Of The Day, Trying

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• I would love for [Jesus] to come back because I would love for him to face what is happening and to really have some sort of perspective. In that same respect, I'm sure that Prophet Muhammad would be disgusted by what some people use his name to justify.

  Immortal Technique

  Jesus, Names, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.

  Nas

  Real, Writing, Stories

  Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.

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• I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.

  Brian Regan

  People, Laughing, Everyday

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.

  Brian Regan

  Hard Work, People, Missing

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I always approached the sport from a more cerebral, analytical point of view, a management perspective. I was taking all business classes there at Georgetown, I really enjoyed that. I always sort of looked at football from that perspective.

  Pete Lembo

  Sports, Football, Class

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'

  James Patterson

  Christian, Humanity, Duty

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• Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

  Warren Farrell

  Views, Feminist, World

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• Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Strings Attached, Looks

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.159, Beacon Press

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• The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.

  Michael Tierra

  Healing, Eye, Artist

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• I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

  Lily Cole

  School, Grounding, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.

  Monique Wittig

  Definitions, Problem, Economic

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• Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

  Dan B. Allender

  Giving, Stories, Answers

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• The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

  Pete Hoekstra

  Military, Different, World

  "Transcript: Rep. Pete Hoekstra on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2006.

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• Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reality, Views, Drawing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.140

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• the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Empathy, Political, Important

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