Perspective Quotes - Page 40

• My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.

  Robyn

  Fun, Independent, Artist

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

  Pierre Soulages

  Art, Opposites, Illusion

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Military, Mean

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• Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For instance, perhaps this is a story not about the hereditary nature of evil, but rather you could interpret it from a different perspective, too.

  Park Chan-wook

  Blood, Evil, Different

  "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.

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• A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.

  Kristen Stewart

  Dream, Roles, Answers

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

  Colin Farrell

  Trying, Hollywood, Looks

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?

  Christoph Waltz

  Stars, Careers, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it.

  Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

  Thinking, Rights, Three

  "How the Civil Rights Act pioneered anti-discrimination laws in America". “PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 10, 2014.

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• I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

  Demi Moore

  Trying, Stuff, Immediate Gratification

  Source: collider.com

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• Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

  Bill James

  Real, Thinking, Interesting

  "Writer Bill James". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.

  J. G. Ballard

  Loneliness, Space, Separation

  J. G. Ballard (1962). “Memories of the space age”, Arkham House Pub

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• It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.

  John Piper

  Self Esteem, Humble, Biblical

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.35, Baker Books

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• Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

  Richard Carlson

  Gratitude, Pain, Real

  Richard Carlson (2011). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Philosophy, Mean, Wish

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• Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

  George Jackson

  Determination, Real, Parole

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Important, Trying

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• As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.

  Henry Reed

  Sleep, Opportunity, Effort

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• If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

  Martha Beck

  Religious, Giving, Ifs

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• By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

  Jon Porter

  School, Records, Information

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• A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

  Tip O'Neill

  Jobs, Lessons

  Tip O'Neill (1994). “All Politics is Local, and Other Rules of the Game”, Adams Media Corporation

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• I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

  Joshua Harris

  Girl, Romance, Combination

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• A mother has a unique perspective. Nobody sees the life of the child the way the child’s mother does—not even the father. This is Mary’s perspective of Jesus life. It seems to me that every genuine Christian, not just Catholics, should be interested in that perspective—and not just interested, but fascinated. In the rosary we ponder the life of Jesus through the eyes of his mother. This is an incredibly powerful experience if we enter into it fully

  Matthew Kelly

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Laughter, Successful, Men

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• Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.

  Chris Ahrens

  Eye, Two, Racing

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• It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.

  David Berman

  Intelligent, Long Ago, Temptation

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