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“I hope that I have gained some wisdom, but I don't know. I have kids, and that certainly puts things into perspective. I think I'm a more patient person. I hope I'm a more patient person. I'm a little more relaxed about the peripheral side of this business, which I used to find very confusing and alarming.”

Thinking Knows Littles Persons Kids Used Sides Perspective Patient Relaxed Confusing Patient Person

Author:Cillian Murphy

“I think actually one of the things you learn when you get older is, things change. You get a longer perspective. I was quite depressed when I was young. I had a dark cloud hanging over me. But I always felt "this is not the end." It's always changing; it's going up, it's going down. Great things will happen.”

Thinking Ends Happens Young Felt Dark Perspective Clouds Great Things Things Change Dark Clouds

Author:Lukas Moodysson

“When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different. I always can go back to what I love, but if somebody has a better idea, then I'm all for it.”

Ifs May Ideas Different Childhood Perspective

Author:Jon M. Chu

“You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do.”

Ifs Knows Want Years Made Two Age Together Next Energy Deals Mistake Lord Willing Perspective Fellows Accomplish Plenty Two Years

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.”

Successful Revolution Perspective Revolt New Perspective

Author:Andre Malraux

“We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.”

Purpose Values Process Vision Perspective Balance Empowerment Speed Symbols Clock Efficient Efficiency Compass Effectiveness

Author:Stephen Covey

“Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.”

Speak Perspective Authority Eternal Absolutes Finals

Book:Knowing Scripture: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Knowing Scripture: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.”

Ifs Giving May Spiritual Spirit Humanity Interest Loses Perspective Holy Connections Institutions Intention Sake Holy Spirit Serving Serving God Marrying Spiritual Connection

Author:A. R. Rahman

“Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.”

Knows Years Perspective Old Man Twelve

Author:Alex Gaskarth

“It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.”

World Needs Kind Accepting Perspective Lust Norm

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually done a tonne of research. And they'll tell you about it from their perspective which is better than doing your own research.”

Ifs Done Honest Perspective Directors Research Being Honest Screenplays

Author:Christina Ricci

“Our physiology creates disease to give us feedback, to let us know we have an unbalanced perspective, or we're not being loving and grateful. So the body's signs and symptoms are not something terrible.”

Knows Giving Body Perspective Terrible Disease Grateful Symptoms Feedback Physiology Unbalanced

Author:John Frederick Demartini

“When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.”

People Heart May Different Culture Attitude Economic Perspective Circumstances Backgrounds Vary Different Backgrounds

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a modicum of freedom from linguistic frameworks, from familiar mental habits. Anyone who really knows two or more tongues realizes that even that small enlargement of liberty . . . gives him new perspectives, exercizes his soul anew.”

Knows World Giving Two Soul Realizing Liberty Perspective Habit Tongue Familiar Framework New Perspective Enlargement

Author:Benjamin Lee Whorf

“... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.”

Ifs World Believe Stills Helping Reality Certain Wish Perspective Aspect Metaphor Productions Description Surprising

Book:Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles

Source: Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles

“I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Matter Form Differences Perspective Findings Miserable Torture Live Your Life Defining Think Of You Finding Happiness Define Yourself

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.”

Feels Trying Seems Fun Perspective Mindset Feel Good Nutrition Gentleness

Author:Taylor Schilling

“I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.”

Ifs Important Ends Asks Position Adventure Perspective Looking Back New Adventure

Author:Reinhold Messner

“So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.”

World Care Perspective Depends Pressure Temptation Midst Maintaining Deprivation Tribulation Ordinariness

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“I have defended Syria for a long time, so I was admiring Syria, I have admired your president very much. I hope at some point to be able to meet him and shake his hand. I think he is the greatest man in a very difficult period, and especially with what's going on right now, in terms of Lebanon and its relations with Syria. But absolutely, even from my perspective, and it shows you how the Zionist media around the world controls and affects all of us. Even those of us who are aware of it - it's subtly affecting.”

Thinking Men World Long Shows Hands Able Difficult President Term Media Perspective Periods Right Now Long Time Relation Around The World Shakes Syria Zionist Admiring Lebanon Greatest Man

Author:David Duke

“Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him.”

Thinking Men Done Helping Fun Color Perspective Nails Nails Done

Author:Adrienne Bailon

“Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.”

Way Different Past Remember Perspective Gratitude Different Ways Remembering The Past

Book:Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul

Source: Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul

“Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.”

Problem Attention Focus Perspective Difficulty

Book:How to Listen to God

Source: How to Listen to God

“The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.”

Reason Struggle Perspective Adversity Priorities

Book:How to Handle Adversity

Source: How to Handle Adversity

“A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.”

Roles Perspective Thinker Reverse

Author:James Cook

“I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist, when I fly in, I care about every place I go including conflicts.”

Thinking Giving Care Influence Perspective Conflict Including Journalist Our Family I Care Covering

Author:Shaul Schwarz

“From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.”

World Economic Produce Perspective Percent Property Income Treated Treated Unfairly

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.”

Needs War Country Order Community Taught Perspective Survivor

Author:Zainab Salbi

“By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.”

States Film Loses Perspective Filmmaker Sundance

Author:James Ponsoldt

“But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons of acquisitions people, and the fate of your film in some ways, if not decided, is really affected by how it screens that night.”

People Ifs Knows Way Film Night Fate Perspective Decided Pressure Screens Opening Journalist Affected Acquisition Opening Night

Author:James Ponsoldt

“I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.”

Thinking Way Bigs Seems Moving Perspective Bigger Studios Believer Leap

Author:Brad Furman

“From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.”

Knows Way Feels Mean My Own Perspective Depends

Author:Ariel Pink

“I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.”

Thinking Helping Audience Perspective Anxiety Expectations Manage

Author:Vince Gilligan

“The challenge I think at first consideration is always a mixture of the creative opportunity and the finances. From the studio perspective, that's what they're looking to balance.”

Thinking Firsts Opportunity Challenges Creative Perspective Balance Studios Finance Consideration Mixtures

Author:Hutch Parker

“Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.”

Persons Character Stories Film Perspective Producers Toms Cruise

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.”

Facts Political Left Enemy Issues Perspective Becoming Wide Rational Variety Just One Progressive Academic Acceptable Inquiry Viewpoints

Author:David Limbaugh

“Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.”

Way Long Use Difficult Term Risk Produce Perspective Gun Pressure Crowds All Time Long Term Short Term Orientation Posture Risk-taking

Author:Seth Klarman

“Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first.”

“But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.”

People Way Humans Kind Lines Conditions Perspective Development Victory Ultimate Deeper Appeals Inherent Good Way Dead People

Author:Bruce Sterling

“Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.”

Helping Problem Jesus Christ Our Lives Perspective Jesus Christ Daily Problems

Author:Max Anders

“Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.”

Running Steps Tree Perspective Forests Again And Again Keep Running Old Trees

Author:Bill Crawford

“You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.”

Want Decision Perspective Ought Eternal

Author:James E. Faust

“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.”

Death Dying Acceptance Perspective Mountain Eternity Clouds Impermanence Transient

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.”

“Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.”

Firsts Looks Wonder Seeing Perspective First Time Through The Eyes

Author:Betty Smith

“The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.”

Soul Seems Perspective Conservative Dimensions Ecology Testimony Dmt

Author:Terence McKenna

“It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.”

Way Giving Ideas Hard Bigs Speak Perspective Organize Files Big Ideas

Author:Charlie Munger

“And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.”

Believe I Believe Revolution Perspective

Author:Terence McKenna

“What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.”

Thinking Use Reality Perspective Higher Mathematical Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.”

Thinking Long Important Helping Running Perspective Normal Long Runs Normal Life

Author:Winona Ryder

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