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Perspective Quotes:

Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

- A.C. Grayling

topic: Philosophy, Mistake, Perspective, Great Person, Great Personality

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Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.

source: "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

topic: Communication, Media, Perspective, Astute

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As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

- Aaron T. Beck

source: Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

topic: Emotional, Perspective, Drug, Substance Abuse

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Abraham Maslow

source: "Life In the Open Sea". Book by William M. Stephens (p. 21), 1972.

topic: Change, Perspective, Awakening, Spiritual Awareness, Necessary Change

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

topic: Children, People, Perspective

Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Jobs, Perspective, Co Worker

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

topic: Perspective, Lost, Translate

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

topic: Sacrifice, Long, Perspective

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

source: Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

topic: Differences, Perspective, Mountain, Climbing Mountain, Mountain Climbing

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

topic: Past, Perspective, Way

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

topic: Tired, Long, Perspective

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

source: Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.

topic: Wisdom, Perspective

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

topic: Views, Perspective, Point Of View

The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.

topic: Biblical, Rights, Perspective

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

- Alan Loy McGinnis

topic: Mean, Perspective, People, Whole Person, Concluding

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

topic: Attitude, Perspective, Vitality

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Thinking, Perspective, Faithful

Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.

topic: Creating, Perspective

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

- Aleksander Kwasniewski

topic: Thinking, Years, Perspective

Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

source: Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

topic: Dream, Perspective, Confusing, Waking Life

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

topic: Writing, Perspective, Looks

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

- Alexander McCall Smith

topic: Book, Perspective, Female

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

- Alexander Rodchenko

topic: Men, Order, Perspective, Graphic Design, Sculptors

Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children

source: Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.159, Beacon Press

topic: Children, Perspective, Looks, Love Our Children, Strings Attached

Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

topic: Essence, Goal, Perspective

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

- Alfred Richard Orage

source: Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

topic: Perspective, Inability, Observation, Organisms, Observing

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Good Luck, Perspective, Luck

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

- Alicia Sacramone

topic: Sports, Perspective, Ease

To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.

- Alister E. McGrath

topic: Integrity, Doors, Perspective

Food, medicine, beauty, and love. When we talk about them in English, they seem so different from each other. But looking at them from another perspective, they are not so different. Good food is a part of good health. Good health leads to good looks. Love surrounds it all. When we feed or heal, we share love. When we love and are loved, we are beautiful.

- Alma Hogan Snell

source: Alma Hogan Snell (2006). “A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Beautiful, Medicine, Perspective, Food Medicine, Beauty And Love

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

- Alphonso Jackson

topic: Moving Forward, Agency, Perspective, Affordable, Affordable Housing

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Change, Breathing, Perspective

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Religious, Perspective, Honor, Gluttony

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

- America Ferrera

topic: Children, Perspective, Challenges

The perspective is more important than the perception

topic: Perspective, Perception, Important

Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Home, Heart, Perspective, Latitude

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Disappointment, Women, Perspective

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

topic: Perspective, Tennis, Feelings, Prize Money

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

topic: Past, Perspective

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

- Andrew Loomis

topic: Mean, Drawing, Perspective, Bothering You

No matter how solid or structured or set you think you are, there is, you know, a very thin line keeping us all from sort of chaos, in some perspective. And you know, I don't view that really as a negative thing at all, but it just is the truth.

- Andrew McMahon

topic: Thinking, Views, Perspective

After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.

topic: Loss, Space, Perspective, Nothing Matters, Devastating Loss

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

topic: Heart, Perspective, Lost, Desperate Times, Head And Heart

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

topic: Wisdom, Giving, Perspective, Different Perspective, Ability To See

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

topic: Grateful, Loss, Perspective, Noticer

Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

topic: Grateful, Perspective, Focus

A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

topic: Grateful, Perspective, Abundance

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

topic: Dark, Moon, Perspective

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

source: "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.

topic: Interesting, Perspective, Goes On

The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.

- Anne Katherine

source: Anne Katherine (2012). “Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

topic: Perspective, Resilience, Energy, Resourcefulness

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

topic: Thoughtful, Perspective, Missing

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

topic: Perspective, Perception, Different

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

- Anne Shropshire

topic: Death, Perspective, Dying, Near Death Experience

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Stars, Dark, Perspective

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

- Antoni Tapies

topic: Artist, Perspective, Experience, New Perspective

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Thinking, Perspective, Towns

You need only examine your present situation to discover unlimited resources and opportunities.

topic: Opportunity, Perspective, Needs, Present Situation

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

source: "Man and Hunger: The Perspectives of History". Arnold J. Toynbee's speech to the World Food Congress, January 9, 1963.

topic: Anger, Race, Perspective

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Giving, Perspective, Needs

If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.

- Arthur Carhart

topic: Men, Thinking, Perspective, Communion With Nature

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.

source: Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

topic: Education, Interesting, Perspective, Knicks

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

- Arthur Nielsen

topic: Perspective, Information, Clients, Divulge, Confidential

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

- Arthur Peacocke

source: "Paths From Science Towards God: The End of all Our Exploring".

topic: Perspective, World, Structure, Incessant

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Book, Animal, Perspective, Different Animals, Cinematic

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.

topic: Thinking, Hair, Perspective, Different Perspective, World Of Warcraft

I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.

- Augusto De Luca

topic: Skeletons, Order, Perspective, Layout, Geometric

SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.

topic: Perspective, Equal, Participation

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

topic: Perspective, Pulse, Patterns

I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

topic: Daughter, Perspective, Dinner

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

- Barbara Fredrickson

topic: People, Perspective, Focus, Big Picture, Bad Attitude

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Perspective, Empathy, Political

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

- Barbara Taylor Bradford

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 14, 2014

topic: Letting Go, Past, Perspective

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Perspective, Events, Midst

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

source: "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

topic: Power, Perspective, Decision

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

topic: Thinking, Perspective, Alive

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

- Beah Richards

topic: Thinking, People, Perspective

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

source: BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”

topic: Distance, Perspective, Sense Of Humor

I never really thought of myself as a beefcake kind of guy.

topic: Perspective, Guy, Kind

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Creativity, Perspective, Different, Different Perspective

When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Two, Perspective, Long

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Perspective, Discipline, People

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Compassion, Giving, Perspective, Surfer

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

topic: Drinking, Drunk, Perspective, Drinking Alcohol, Drinking Party

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

topic: Men, Views, Perspective

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

topic: Perspective, Shadow, Shapes, Orchestration

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

source: "The 13 Best Sports Documentaries" by Brandon Latham, www.indiewire.com. August 13, 2014.

topic: Sports, Perspective, Tragedy

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

- Bob Schieffer

topic: Mean, Perspective, Trying

I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.

- Bobby Cannavale

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Kids, Perspective, Roles

Perspective is the cure for depression.

topic: Perspective, Cures

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

source: Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

topic: Thoughtful, Perspective, Answers, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

topic: Views, People, Perspective, Anti Political

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

source: Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.208, New World Library

topic: Unique, Perspective, Needs, Unique Perspective

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

topic: Motivational, Compassion, Perspective, Love And Compassion

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

- Bret Michaels

topic: Perspective, Guy, Brain

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

- Brian McKnight

source: "Brian McKnight ‘More Than Words’: R&B Singer Opens Up On New Album". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

topic: People, Perspective, Different, Take A Deep Breath

Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.

topic: Perspective, Company

I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.

topic: Hard Work, Perspective, People, Lucky Person

I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.

topic: People, Laughing, Perspective, Difficult Circumstances

Perspective is a gift nowadays.

topic: Perspective

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

- Brooke Shields

topic: Perspective, Priorities, Understanding, Postpartum, Postpartum Depression

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

- Brooks Atkinson

source: Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

topic: People, Perspective, Uninterested

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Perspective, Mind, Limited Perspective

If I brought you down to the size of an individual cell so that you could see your body from that perspective, it would offer a whole new view of the world. When you looked back at yourself from that perspective you would not see yourself as a single entity. You would see yourself as a bustling community of more than 50 trillion individual cells.

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Cells, Views, Perspective

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Perspective, Inspire

So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.

source: "Notable Quotes: Steroid Hearings" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2005.

topic: Player, Perspective, Unions, Steroid

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

topic: Unique, Perspective, Understanding

Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.

topic: Religious, Perspective, Women's Health

Time puts things in proper perspective.

- Cameron Crowe

topic: Perspective

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

topic: Perspective, Important, Age

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

topic: Talking, Giving, Perspective

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Perspective

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

topic: Philosophical, Perspective, Humanity

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

topic: Motherhood, Perspective, Joy, Young Women, Modeling Industry

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

- Carroll Quigley

source: Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

topic: Memories, Self, Perspective, Conscious Awareness

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Civilization, Perspective, Historical, Western Civilization, Historical Change

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

source: Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

topic: Mean, Reality, Perspective, Airline Business

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

- Chang-Rae Lee

topic: Perspective, Sometimes, Said

To turn to the Lord and to trust him through revelation will help any individual, at any time, in any part of the world, understand and interpret correctly and righteously life's experiences from the only true perspective, which is the Lord's perspective revealed to man. To turn to the Lord and to trust his revelations is live in such a way as to resist the floods and the winds of doubt and uncertainty.

- Charles A. Didier

topic: Men, Wind, Perspective

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Odds, People, Perspective, Edgy

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

- Charles Edward Montague

topic: Girl, Mean, Perspective, Small Girl

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

- Charles Garfield

topic: Perspective, Worst, Values

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

- Charles James

topic: Perspective, Difficult, Company

Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to wholeâ€¦â€¦. â€¦skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspectiveâ€¦. â€¦always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

- Charles Jencks

topic: Space, Perspective, Elements, Coordinates, Baroque

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

- Charles Schumer

source: Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House

topic: Perspective, Vision, Important

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

topic: Views, People, Perspective, Beijing, Positive Perspective

To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.

- Chloe Sevigny

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Views, Icons, Perspective

When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Healing, Hands, Perspective, Elementals, Heaven And Earth

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

topic: Jesus, Kings, Perspective, Judas

There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to make another Dances With Wolves, because it's not an Indian movie. When Indians portray themselves, then we have a different perspective. I've been asked about making period pieces but I've never read one that wasn't about guilt, and I'm not trying to make a guilt film.

topic: Thinking, Media, Perspective, Portraying

The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?

topic: Writing, Perspective, Holocaust, Holocaust Deniers

When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

- Christine Caine

source: Twitter post from Feb 11, 2015

topic: Thinking, Perspective, Care

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

- Christine Lagarde

topic: Father, Perspective, Passed Away, Father Passed Away

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

- Christine McVie

topic: Perspective, Monsters, Littles

I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

- Christine Quinn

topic: Talking, Issues, Perspective, Stop And Frisk, Both Sides

I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.

- Christopher Darden

source: "Darden promises book on Simpson, race issue". www.cnn.com. October 11, 1995.

topic: Unique, Thinking, Perspective

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

- Christopher Durang

source: "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

topic: Laughter, Perspective

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Perspective, Perception, Looks, Big Picture, Lullaby

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.

topic: Angel, Perspective, Vote, Hells Angels

He understood that she needed some time to get used to "them." He didn't. He knew exactly what was happening, and he didn't need another week, another month, another year, to get things in perspective. He loved her. It was that plain. That simple.

topic: Simple, Years, Perspective, Another Year

When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she leaps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Beautiful, Wings, Perspective, Wild Beauty, How Beautiful She Is

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

topic: Memories, Perspective, Perception, Perception Of The World, Selective

Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

- Cloris Leachman

topic: Perspective, Judging, Gold

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

topic: Mirrors, Perspective, Car, Positive Focus, Focus In Business

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

- Colleen Hoover

source: Colleen Hoover (2014). “Maybe Someday”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

topic: Bad Day, Order, Perspective, Maybe Someday

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Pain, Perspective, Important, Foreground, Important Words

When I had my child, I planned on being with the woman I had him with for the rest of my life. If that doesn't work out, you have to see things from a different perspective.

- Corey Feldman

topic: Children, Work Out, Perspective

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Children, Perspective, Perception

Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.

- Craig S. Keener

topic: Book, Writing, Perspective, Up To Date, Specialists

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

topic: Believe, Reality, Perspective

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

topic: Emotional, Perspective, Understanding

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

topic: Perspective, Different, Logic, Curveballs, Different Angles

When Christ is the center of your focus, all else will come into proper perspective.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Jesus, Perspective, Focus

In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

topic: Caring, Long, Perspective, Long Term, Burnout

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

topic: Attachment, Perspective, Vision, Constrain

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

- Dale E. Turner

topic: Wise, Perspective, Missing, Positive Perspective, Goliath

Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.

topic: Men, Perspective, Entrepreneur

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

topic: Athlete, Perspective, Important

From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.

- Damon Lindelof

topic: Hate, Perspective, Three

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

- Dan B. Allender

topic: Perspective, Challenges, Enemy

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

- Dan B. Allender

topic: Giving, Perspective, Stories

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.

topic: Vegetables, Perspective, Cows, Grazing

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

topic: Light, Perspective, Sometimes

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

topic: Mean, Perspective, Empathy, Great Gifts

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

topic: Moving, Creativity, Perspective, Moving Beyond, New Perspective

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Thinking, Perspective, Want

Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Perspective, Gone, Helpful, Nascar

Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners...

- Daniel Dennett

topic: Life, Spring, Perspective

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate youll be at taking their perspective.

- Daniel H. Pink

topic: Perspective, Choices, Sides, Word Choice, Mannerisms

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

- Daniel H. Wilson

topic: Grandmother, Perspective, Google, Dangerous Places, New Perspective

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

- Daniel J. Bernstein

topic: Perspective, Connected, Security

Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.

- Daniel Levitin

topic: Art, Perspective, Giving, Dabs, Foreground

I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Giving, Perspective, Mind

Gratitude puts everything into perspective.

- Danielle LaPorte

topic: Gratitude, Perspective

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

- Danny Bonaduce

topic: Perspective, Special, Done, Special You, New Perspective

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

topic: Perspective, World, Should

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

topic: Dream, Book, Perspective, New Perspective

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Heart, Perspective, People

Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what

- David Archuleta

topic: Perspective, Matter

Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.

- David Bezmozgis

topic: Play, Perspective, Different

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

- David Brinkley

topic: People, Perspective, World

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

- David Cronenberg

topic: Philosophy, Perspective, Different

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

topic: Perspective, Different, May, Chelsea

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

topic: Home, Perspective, Going Home, Prospects

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

- David Guterson

source: David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.105, A&C Black

topic: Philosophy, Reflection, Perspective

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

- David Harewood

source: "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

topic: Giving, Perspective, Joy, Perspective On Things

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

- David Maraniss

source: Interview with Carlos J. Queirós, www.aarp.org. April, 2006.

topic: Writing, People, Perspective

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

topic: Perspective, Meat, Flags

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

topic: Agency, Doctors, Perspective, Advertising Agencies

The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a persons chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.

- David Perlmutter

topic: Perspective, Brain, Way, Dementia, Lifestyle Change

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

topic: Years, Perspective, Environmental, Environmental Change, Explosives

In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

source: David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

topic: Perspective, Growth, Environmental

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

- Dee Dee Myers

topic: Issues, Perspective, Important

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

topic: Business, Humility, Perspective, Replicate

The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are as great an addition to the world as Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, and subtracting you from the cosmic equation would be just as great a loss. The most exquisite silk remains intact if you pull out a thread, but the snag will show.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Mother, Loss, Perspective, Teresa

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

- DeForest Soaries

topic: Commitment, Government, Perspective, Assistance, Charter

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

- Delta Goodrem

topic: Cancer, Perspective, Stressed

You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective

topic: Simple, Perspective, Changing Your Life

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Acceptance, Perspective, Viewpoints

...Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ...

topic: Struggle, Long, Perspective, Bolshevism

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Perspective, Looks, Values

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