“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.” PeopleThinkingLongPoliticalCultureCoursesImpossiblePerspectiveLong TimeFascinatedSecularIgnored Author:Tom Perrotta
“My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.” PeopleKnowsGivingDifferentMightPerspectiveGive MeDifferent PerspectiveProximity Author:Greta Van Susteren
“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.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanPersonsI CanReasonWholeIndividualSocialWaitingSeeingInformationParticularPerspectiveCircumstancesOrdinaryAdvantagePatientLazyIntercourseTherapistsTotalityWhole PersonConcluding Author:Alan Loy McGinnis
“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.” PeopleThinkingLooksPerspectiveBlindSurface Author:Beah Richards
“To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.” PeopleMenWayPersonsSometimesPoliticalNextBeliefFeetHe ManPerspectiveWork OutRageBuddhistObliviousPolitical Beliefs Author:Mike White