Perspective Quotes - Page 8

• One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Self, People, Trying

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

  Susan Griffin

  Serious, Circumstances

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• As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

  Ziggy Marley

  Artist, Use, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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  Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Unique, World, Matter

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• What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, White, Needs

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.

  Ice Cube

  Art, School, Understanding

  "Ice Cube Discusses His Collaboration With RareInk". Interview with Melinda Brocka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

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• Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

  Adam Fletcher

  Children, People, Adults

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• Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Diversity, Design

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• Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern

  Bankei Yotaku

  Pulse, Patterns, Unborn

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• The way out is through the door you came in.

  R. D. Laing

  Healing, Doors, Way

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• How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

  Pat McBride

  Fall, Color, Important

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• But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?

  Gregory Corso

  Cat, Light, Care

  Gregory Corso (1962). “Selected poems”

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• The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.

  Adyashanti

  Compassion, Vision, Separation

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• You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Fields, Take A Chance

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013

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• Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Views, Opinion, Point Of View

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• A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Thinking, Alive, Rowing

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• Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

  Debbie Ford

  Views, Lenses, World

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• Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Design

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• Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Country, Voice, Creating

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• You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.

  Leon Daudet

  Opening Up, Ducks, Hands

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• Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "pre-emptive rationalization." At some deep level, we anticipate difficulty and resistance so we start to back away from our own instinctive values perspective.

  Mary C. Gentile

  Thinking, Action, Failing

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• Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Running, Reality, Simplicity

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• We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Views, People, Decision

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• There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Objectivity, Knowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.555, Modern Library

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