Perspective Quotes - Page 32

• Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Retrospect, Continuity, Visible

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.223, Grove Press

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• It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Player, Wings

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• It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Leadership, Years, Long

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• Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Moon, Drawing, People

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• It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

  Myrtle Reed

  Views, Looks, World

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Yield, Serenity, Achievement

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• Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

  Josephine Tey

  Mountain

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.

  Augusto De Luca

  Skeletons, Order, Needs

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• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Meaningful, Poetry, Feelings

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• The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

  Boris Trajkovski

  War, Loss, Years

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• What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.

  Eve Ensler

  Real, Opposites, Two

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Fashion, Hollywood, Different

  "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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  In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Real, Guy, Real Life

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Math, Views, Engineering

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Bad Day, Years

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.

  Raymond Geuss

  Finals, Viewpoints, Sometimes

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

  Lydia M. Child

  Past, Errors, Age

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• From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

  Drew Barrymore

  Age, Lucky, Alternatives

  Interview with Elle, www.elle.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

  David Harewood

  Giving, Joy, Fatherhood

  "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft: not embarrassing, very cool.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Thinking, Hair, People

  "Aubrey Plaza on Her Sundance Superhit and Her Murderous Plans Involving Ryan Gosling". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. January 24, 2012.

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• You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

  Kim Stanley

  Writing, Trying, Littles

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• Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that Ive had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Gratitude, Loss, Artist

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• Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

  Donald Miller

  Suffering, Cease

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• Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Function, Circumstances

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• Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

  Hans Werner Henze

  Drawing, Lines, Form

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