Perspective Quotes - Page 39

• Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.

  Tom Robbins

  Distance, Personality, Steps

  11 Copy quote

• There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Blessing, Practice

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Book, Reading

  Source: zenhabits.net

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Acting, Agents

  6 Copy quote

• From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension.

  Albert Bandura

  Believe, People, Events

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Work hard and find stories you want to tell from your heart. The great thing for women is that there are so many stories which haven't been told from our perspective and there is a huge audience just waiting to watch it.

  Sanna Lenken

  Hard Work, Heart, Waiting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

  Eric Kandel

  Way, Dimensions, Situation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Atheist, Historical, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

  China Mieville

  Writing, Horror Stories, Creating

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

  David Boudia

  Fall, Trying, Competing

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. 2012.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

  Gary Hamel

  Innovation, Different, Lenses

  5 Copy quote

• If you look at any type of situation, I look at the positive and try to spread my light and truth. I think it helps with my outlook on life and correlates to football. But I don't think it helps me run any faster, jump any higher, or catch the ball or anything like that. It just helps me with perspective.

  Arian Foster

  Football, Running, Thinking

  "TFG Interview: Arian Foster, Texans RB". Interview with Melissa Jacobs, thefootballgirl.com. July 13, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.

  Adrian Younge

  Thinking, Feelings, Audio

  "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.

  Laura Mulvey

  Media, Generations, Debate

  Source: en.aup.nl

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe seeing earth a small blue ball in the vast dark ocean of space, gives you a new perspective on life and what is important. You can see how small we are as compared to the universe and how fragile our lives are.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Believe, Ocean, Dark

  Source: scienceblog.com

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.

  Kadir Nelson

  Summer, Teacher, Art

  "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Writing, Female, Stories

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.

  Sadako Ogata

  Japan, Effort, Unions

  "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yoga is for everyone. Personally I believe yoga would benefit anyone's life. It is such an amazing form of exercise and if you practice regularly it really slows your mind down and it helps you to get perspective. It keeps you incredibly fit and really flexible. It helps prevent ailments because you're working all the body.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Believe, Yoga, Exercise

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a lot of stress on young people. They've always got exams and have to reach this goal or reach that goal. Yoga might be really good for them because there must be a lot of emotions that come up and yoga would really help to get a perspective and balance.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Stress, Yoga, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Memories, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Balance is everything. And I'm not just speaking from a road perspective - even from home. My wife and I work out of the house and we always struggle to find that balance because when work is around you 24/7, it's easy to neglect the little things in life that really help us to rejuvenate or heal.

  Chuck Ragan

  Struggle, Home, Things In Life

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

  Jack Nicholson

  Guy, Lots Of Friends, Share

  Source: cinema.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.

  George Coyne

  Christian, Discovery, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

  9 Copy quote

  Show source