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“Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day.”

World Different Shows Life Is Perspective Weather Unpredictable New Perspective

Author:Suzy Kassem

“The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.”

Reality Perspective Addresses Contradiction Spectators

Author:John Berger

“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

“The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.”

Way Choices Perspective Wake Up Live Your Life Select Choices You Make

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.”

Too Much Objects Perspective Size Careful Tiny Be Careful

Author:Bryan Singer

“Television is interesting, in that the pace is quicker and you can see your work more quickly than with movies. And then, with the added social media aspect, you can access that relationship to the fans directly and you have control of the content of what you say, your perspective, your opinions and your ideas.”

Ideas Social Interesting Opinion Fans Media Television Perspective Aspect Social Media Access Pace

Author:Matthew Davis

“In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one.”

Mind Comedy Perspective Healthy

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.”

Knows World Different Reading Son Perspective My Friends My Family Who I Am Worried My Son Headlines Different Perspective

Author:Kid Rock

“Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.”

People Way Giving Different Opinion Perspective Directors Insight Different Opinions

Author:Dominique McElligott

“The perspective that law enforcement is presenting seems to be a very narrow one that's focused very, very heavily on investigations of past crimes rather than on preventing future crimes. It's very important for policymakers to take that broader view because they're the ones who are trusted to look at the big picture.”

Looks Important Bigs Seems Past Law Views Crime Perspective Focused Investigation Trusted Law Enforcement Enforcement Presenting Preventing Big Picture

Author:Matt Blaze

“Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.”

Giving Use Parent Perspective Jimmy

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.”

Needs Believe Humans I Can States Problem Government Order Policy Perspective Drug Creating Europe Debate Consumers Our Society

Author:George Papandreou

“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

“A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.”

Jobs Perspective Offers Ideals Guides Pursue Being True Mentor

Author:John Wooden

“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.”

Thinking Enough Father Sleep Inspire Like You Perspective Goes On Becoming Dad Parenting Satisfying Things In Life Simplest Fathers Day Enough Sleep Becoming A Father

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.”

People Knows Men Years Done Levels Perspective Fine Australia Satisfying Know Me Fountain Prestige X Men Nolan

Author:Hugh Jackman

“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.”

Faces Moving Challenges Ability Perspective Safe Missions Moving Forward Agency Decent Housing Keep Moving Forward Affordable Affordable Housing

Author:Alphonso Jackson

“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.”

“The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.”

World Different Born Fantasy Pieces Possibility Building Painting Perspective Photography Infinite Screens Cinema Sugar Unlimited

Author:Salvador Dali

“The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.”

Sometimes Light Care Moral Perspective Glory Evidence Aspect Clean West Finals Landscape Unexpected Depressing Assurance Misused

Author:Robert Adams

“Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.”

Memories Perspective Photograph Humble Selfish

Author:Wim Wenders

“I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.”

Giving Littles Different Use Eye Perspective Cameras Details Architecture

Author:Edward Hopper

“Looking through a child's eyes and knowing this was another planet, we decided to design the machines with eyes and bodies like animals, we also decided that this planet has two moons, and we decided that anything else we wanted to do was allowed. It was a new perspective to make the film.”

Children Two Body Eye Wanted Film Animal Knowing Design Planets Perspective Moon Decided Machines New Perspective

Author:Alex Abreu

“I remember the first day I got there, they started the take and after four takes I was on the ground, on my back, with a banana and a Twizzler in my hand, and my face was green, and they said, "You can't get back on set for another 30 minutes." That was a, "Welcome to Atlanta," and that put everything in perspective.”

Firsts Said Hands Remember Faces Four Minutes Perspective Green Welcome Get Back They Said Bananas Atlanta

Author:Steven Yeun

“Jason [Nash] is just someone that I've known socially and through his stand-up, seeing him do different comedy shows, and I just really like him. I think he's a funny guy and he has a unique perspective on being a dad and a husband.”

Thinking Different Shows Guy Known Comedy Seeing Perspective Dad Husband Unique Jason Being A Dad Comedy Shows Funny Guy Unique Perspective

Author:Busy Philipps

“There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.”

Different America Black Perspective Ought Conversation Ideological Robust Black America

Author:Cornel West

“Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our perspective. "No, we wouldn't do this. Yes, we would do that. That's not realistic." So, I feel like Center Stage did well in that respect.”

Feels Wells Fans Stage Huge Perspective Realistic Ballet Center Stage

Author:Amanda Schull

“Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.”

People Want Feels Reading Literature Bits Results Perspective Activity Comfortable Management Complexes Affair Operations Acknowledge Insignificance

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.”

Giving Stills House Loses Rooms Watches Perspective Directors Office Sitting Exciting Notes Very Good Editors

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.”

People Thinking Giving Different Stories Reality Light Artist Opportunity Share Inspire Perspective Shed Different Perspective Different Realities

Author:Goapele

“My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.”

Ifs Giving Feelings Eye Wanted Guy Suffering Fire Perspective Reader Behavior Objectives Release Tension Visuals Pilots Threatening Marine Apprehension Through The Eyes Infantryman

Author:David Douglas Duncan

“I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.”

Thinking Understanding Changed Perspective Skills Shoes Crafts I've Learned Fabric Subtlety Accessories Handbags Yarn Technical Skills

Author:Marc Jacobs

“Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.”

“It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.”

Views Nice Judging Perspective Fake Chairs Allies Courtroom Ally Mcbeal

Author:Robert Downey, Sr.

“I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.”

Enjoy Records Perspective Photograph Privilege Encounters Makers Traveler Storyteller Tourists Subjectivity Anthropologists Timelines Colonists

Author:Susan Meiselas

“What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience.”

People Way Firsts Different Wanted Audience Middle Perspective Musician Unique Online Concerts Intensity Sensory Auditory Unique Perspective

Author:Chris Milk

“The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.”

Real Watches Perspective Cameras Shooting Memorial Tourists Assassins

Author:Joachim Schmid

“What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.”

People Way Certain Belief Realizing Opinion Issues Media Perspective Subtle Scare Manipulate Presenting Highlighting

Author:Oliver Stone

“Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.”

Giving Doe Age Behinds Perspective Sight Temptation Behind You Saddest

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.”

Guy Sports Boys New York Perspective Baby Sunday Easter Boston Kill Me My Boys Easter Day Easter Sunday

Author:Kevin James

“I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.”

Writing Song Felt Perspective Picks Tunes Veins Purple New Perspective

Author:Tommy Bolin

“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.”

Littles Doe Bigs Asks Realizing Worry Forever Minutes Perspective Fool Commitment Harder Remains Little Things Big Things

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.”

Men Long Helping Perspective Powerless

Author:Warren Farrell

“Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.”

Sometimes Inspiration Generations Fashion Creation Perspective Genius Tradition Designer Timeless Modernity Visionaries Provocative Fashion Designer Hyper Avant Garde New Perspective Mcqueen

Author:Francois-Henri Pinault

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

“This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.”

Enough Song Dog Policy Perspective Right Now Europe British Ministers Prime Questioning Prime Minister Blair

Author:George Michael

“In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.”

Light Worry Perspective Solitude Eternity Distance Traps Psychics

Author:Dallas Willard

“Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet.”

World Two Reality Age Spiritual Passion Courses Opportunity Church Perspective Offers Models Draws Offering Colleagues Interiors Spiritual Direction Old Wisdom

Author:Larry Crabb

“Naturally, in 10 years, you change as a person and you learn a lot from your mistakes. You also learn a lot about wasting time and the right way to handle things. We're not touring as much. We're not doing eight or nine months of the year, so I've got a bit more time to get a perspective on what I do. I think I've improved my songwriting. I'm every bit as enthusiastic about playing as ever and I'm still learning.”

Thinking Way Years Persons Stills Bits Mistake Perspective Months Eight Nine Handle Songwriting More Time Wasting Time Right Way Enthusiastic Touring Nine Months Months Of The Year

Author:Rory Gallagher

“Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.”

Difficult Levels Compassion Situation Issues Perspective Empathy Difficult Situations

Author:Ben Parr

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