Perspective Quotes - Page 31

• Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Dark, Thinking, Order

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1935). “Spring Came on Forever”, p.251, U of Nebraska Press

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• Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow?

  Rona Barrett

  Baby, Eagles, Crow

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• I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Philosophical, New Horizons

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

  John Green

  Education, Jobs, Party

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• All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Distance, Firsts, All The Best

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.91, Penguin

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• History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Distance, History, Events

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Power, Reality, Hands

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• The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

  Freya Stark

  Years, Two, Yesterday

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Fire

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

  Bette Midler

  Men, Views, Manners

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• The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Opportunity, Matter, Problem

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• I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective...

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Fun, People, Needs

  "Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald talks playoff hopes, trade rumors, more in Q&A". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. July 10, 2014.

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• The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, People, Confusion

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.

  Terrence Howard

  Relax, Done, World

  "Find Out What the Hell Happened to Terrence Howard". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. March 6, 2013.

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• We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and we all have our positive memories in a certain way. Then when life catches up to them, when you see a different perspective of them, or when you are a couple degrees over, you can see things differently and it shakes you to the foundation.

  David Shapiro

  Couple, Memories, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Thinking, Order

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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• That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

  Jessica Origliasso

  Artist, Self, Want

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.

  Brian Regan

  Company, Happens

  "1/1: Interview with Brian Regan, President of Semper International". Interview with Deborah Corn, www.printmediacentr.com.

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• The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.

  Seth Gabel

  Creativity, Forever, Actors

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.

  Aaron Belz

  Communication, Media, Looks

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.

  David Bezmozgis

  Play, Different, Looks

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

  Edith Hamilton

  Views, Opposites, Joy

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

  Harriet Martineau

  Views, Hopeful, Genius

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.14

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• The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other.

  Harriet Martineau

  Past, Dwelling, Mind

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.221

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• There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Views, Three, Opinion

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