Perspective Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV and it just changed my whole perspective of driving and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.

  Lauren Lee Smith

  Car, Suvs, Driving

  "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.

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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 would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Hands

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• Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.

  Tim Brown

  Creativity, Opportunity, Thinking

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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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• Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

  Julia Cameron

  Technology, Age, Teach

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• People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Dangerous, Edgy

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Mean

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”

  Jonah Lehrer

  Views, California, Creative

  "Groupthink: The brainstorming myth" by Jonah Lehrer, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

  Linda Sanchez

  Population, Minorities, Growing

  "Hispanic Caucus Chairman Denies Rep. Sanchez 'Whore' Remark Allegation" by Michael De Dora Jr. and Molly Hooper, www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2007.

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• I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

  Dan Barber

  Vegetables, Cows, Soil

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• There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

  Chris Crutcher

  Jesus, Kings, Doe

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• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  W. G. Sebald

  Clouds, Views, Towers

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Emigrants”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

  Queen Latifah

  Different, Good Things, Theme

  "Queen Latifah Talks Ice Age: The Meltdown". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.

  George Lucas

  Artist, Technology, Done

  Source: movieweb.com

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• With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad, they wipe out some things and then 10 million years down the road we get new and interesting objects.But I tell you mass extinctions are really awful for folks caught in the midst of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mass Extinction, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Community, Battle

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Life Changing, Thinking, People

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.

  Ruby Dee

  Writing, Unique, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Long, Joy, Soul

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 14, 2016

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