Perspective Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

  William Wordsworth

  All Things, Seems

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.291

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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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• 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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• The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

  Joseph Silk

  Modern, Revelations, Toolbox

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• Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

  Josh Lieb

  Beach, Real, Coffee

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.157, Penguin

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• There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

  Unita Blackwell

  Jobs, Thinking, Benefits

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• Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.

  Linda Simon

  Common Humanity, Differences, Ignorant

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• Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

  Harland Williams

  Artist, Comedian, Different

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• Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

  Teju Cole

  Sight, Sky, Indulge In

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Looks, Way

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Lying, Moving, Novelists

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• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

  Ted Koppel

  Loss, Pay, Way

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• If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Disability, Ifs

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• I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective.
  I'm stardust.
  I'm golden brown.
  I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Golden, Stardust, Brown

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.217, Penguin

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• Everybody was ready to put Denver and Indianapolis in the championship game. We're the same team that went 15-1 last year and made it to the championship game. We're coming from a different perspective now, being on the road playing two tough road games. We all believed in one another, even if no one else did.

  Hines Ward

  Team, Years, Games

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• Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

  Ernest Cline

  Life, Stars, Saws

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.22, Random House

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• When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

  Sophia Amoruso

  Goal, Gains, Possibility

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.100, Penguin

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Years

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• I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

  Emma Bonino

  Mean, Rights, Individual

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• Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mirrors, Views, Rear View

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• Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

  Yoko Ono

  Optimistic, Thinking, Luxury

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• The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while.
  The truth is, we don’t know how taking a break frees up the mind, but it does: Somehow it freshens our little neurons, or perhaps it prompts the brain to create more cleverness molecules.
  If you can bear to let a short piece sit a week and a book-length work a month, do so. Longer is fine, too; some authors have abandoned manuscripts for years before unearthing them and realizing, ‘Hey, this isn’t bad,’ and renewing their energy for the project.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Book, Years, Brain

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