Best events & perspective Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.”

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“In the midst of events there is no perspective.”

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Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.”

Needs Wells Facts History Events Perspective Distance Cease

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“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.”

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“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.”

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Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.”

Thinking Needs Humans Happens Challenges Events Perspective Aspect Curiosity Flight Productive Tragic Remedy Morbid Investigating

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“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.”

Looks My Own Steps Events Perspective Personality Distance Primaries Masculine Protagonists Employing My Own Personality Distance Myself

Author:Tom Robbins

“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.”

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Author:Albert Bandura

“I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.”

Ifs Play Events Judging Perspective Function Scripts Justify Villain

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.”

People Knows Mean Different Self Helping Wonderful Teaching Events Perspective Epiphany Different Perspective

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.”

Ifs Enough Action Loses Events Perspective Scene Add Photograph Good Enough Adopted Retrospect

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.”

Ifs Facts Easy Loses Impossible Events Perspective Fairs Conviction Witness Observers Participants Interpreter

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy”

Views Enemy Events Perspective Accounts Currents Historian Current Events

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been a great television series. Something like The Wire gives us a rich and fully achieved picture of the wasteful, cruel War on Drugs; something like The White Ribbon gives a perspective on World War I that could only have been presented long after the event itself.”

World Giving Long Has Beens Art War Film Form White Rich Events Television Perspective Drug Series War Of The Worlds World War I Wire War On Drugs Ribbons Great Film Film And Television

Author:Teju Cole

“From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.”

World States Levels Consciousness Mankind Events Planets Perspective Pure Reflection Metaphysical World Events

Author:Marianne Williamson

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