“In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after I allow myself to feel it and be human, I try my best to put things in perspective and start moving forward again. I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.” FeelsTryingHumansReasonHappensPainPastRememberMovingOrderBeliefStruggleFocusFrontsCryEmotionalTvsPerspectiveBlessingThings HappenHandleMoving ForwardZoneMy PastEmotional PainEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A ReasonMy Blessing Author:Trista Sutter
“I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.” HelpingMovingWonderfulPerspectivePainful Author:Madi Diaz
“I hate the idea of repeating myself. I need new perspectives and challenges for each project, and I'm very happy that many people are able to follow me without any problem.” PeopleNeedsIdeasProblemAbleHateChallengesPerspectiveProjectsI HateVery HappyFollow MeNew Perspective Author:Christian Fennesz
“I've been doing lot of work, and hopefully will bring it to fruition in a way people can see it, really understanding - this is going to sound funny, but what does government really do, how is it really funded, and what measures exist to evaluate how it does at what it does? No forecast, no policy, no prediction, just a realistic perspective on what is. Call it like a "10k for government" we've been working on with a website, with additional data.” PeopleWayDoeGovernmentUnderstandingSoundPolicyPerspectiveHopefullyDataRealisticPredictionsWebsiteEvaluateForecastsFruition Author:Steve Ballmer
“My wife spent a lot of time on what we do from a civic contribution giving perspective, for a number of years, I've really joined her in that. We're focused on issues in the United States, particularly issues with people who have been trapped in neighborhoods in what I might call intergenerational poverty.” PeopleGivingYearsHas BeensStatesMightUnitedNumbersPovertyUnited StatesIssuesWifePerspectiveMy WifeFocusedContributionNeighborhoodTrappedCivics Author:Steve Ballmer
“From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways.” ThinkingWayImportantStuffCompanyPerspectiveEssentialsInnovationCloudsSurfaceDevicesSoftwareClientsMicrosoftXbox Author:Steve Ballmer
“I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good.” ThinkingKindStillsImportantRealFactsStuffTermNumbersCompanyPerspectiveCrossesWindowCompetitionCloudsPlatformsClientsIntegrationInnovativeHardwareChromeSatya Author:Steve Ballmer
“You can think about life as a battle between you and a doughnut shop. The doughnut shop wants you to eat another doughnut and pay the money, and you want to do it in the short term, but in the long term it's not good for you either financially or from a health perspective.” ThinkingWantLongTermPayPerspectiveBattleLong TermShopsShort TermDoughnut Author:Dan Ariely
“In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.” WritingTwoDifferentEndsReadingNextFoundDoorsPerspectiveKingsHorrorApproachTerrorPsychologicalFascinatingJuniorsDifferent PerspectiveInsidiousJunior HighPendulumsAmericana Author:Bryan Fuller
“I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script.” PeopleNeedsLooksKindDoeRealCharacterUseSeemsFilmSpiritualHousePiecesBloodPerspectiveScriptsFleshPracticalsDemonOccultFlesh And BloodConstantine Author:Keanu Reeves
“We heard from a professor at an evangelical college who wore a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women. Now we have a different perspective. Asra Nomani co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post titled in part "As Muslim Women, We Actually Ask You Not To Wear The Hijab."” DifferentAsksHeardCollegePerspectivePostsProfessorsSolidarityEvangelicalDifferent PerspectiveMuslim WomenHijab Author:Ari Shapiro
“Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing the reality of a situation in detail, has its own persuasive power. This allows readers to look at the facts and the perspectives presented and draw informed conclusions.” LooksMayFactsRealityFeltSoundSituationPerspectiveReaderDrawsDetailsConclusionJournalismRevealingPersuasive Author:Sheri Fink
“The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new work, and new visions for our genre. The whole spirit of these anthologies is that there should never be a last word in how essays are interpreted or what they can be.” ShouldDifferentWholeLastsSpiritCommunityVisionPerspectiveShould HaveGenreIntroducingEssaysLast WordsDifferent PerspectiveAnthologyNew WorkNew Vision Author:John D'Agata
“I have to say that I approach every project with the same energy. I also think that, since I started producing, I see the process from a different perspective, which affects the way I jump on board immediately.” ThinkingWayDifferentEnergyProcessPerspectiveProjectsApproachBoardsDifferent Perspective Author:Olivia Wilde
“We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported.” PeopleWayNeedsShouldFirstsWellsCountryHandsProcessPrinciplesClearPerspectiveSafeTreatsArrivalsAsylumsMigrantsOutdatedSortingRegistrationScrutinizeSorting Out Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.” Has BeensCharacterActorsProcessUnderstandingPleasureCareersBuildingPerspectiveDirectorsExploringVery DeepDeep Understanding Author:Karen Allen
“Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective. Through my research, I obviously learned a lot, much of which made me sad, upset, disappointed and even angry, regarding what Jesse had to go through. Not only was he a black man in America during an age of high racial tension and segregation, but he was also living in the middle of the Great Depression - it was very difficult times for him and his family.” MenMadeAgeAmericaDifficultBlackMiddlePerspectiveHeroResearchBiggerAngryUpsetTensionDisappointedSegregationDifficult TimesGreat DepressionRacial TensionAmerican Hero Author:Stephan James
“In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.” HumansChristianEnjoyHuman BeingsShareDivinePerspectiveEvolveGod LoveInvitesParticipationHuman PotentialDivine Life Author:Thomas Keating
“The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.” GivingHelpingStoriesNovelModernPerspectiveHistoricalContinuingModern LifeHistorical Novels Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were experts in foreshortening and perspective. The technical skill and visual effects of painters like Uccello have to be admired. They achieved a level of artistry that has never been surpassed, in my opinion.” ArtDifferentFormDifficultLevelsOpinionEffectsCenturyStyleMastersPerspectiveSkillsPainterExpertsVisualsArtistryTechnical SkillsIconographyVisual Effects Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“I love Dior. I've been wearing some of the really beautiful structured pieces - I love a deep neck and how it accentuates a woman in that area. And, of course, Louis Vuitton. I've honestly never met someone like Nicolas. He has a really fresh perspective on life in general.” BeautifulCoursesPiecesPerspectiveMetsAreasHonestlyNecksReally BeautifulAccentuateDiorLouis Vuitton Author:Selena Gomez
“Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a different perspective. It sounds romantic, but it's not an easy process at all.” KnowsWorldDifferentEasyProcessSoundPerspectiveLosingStorytellingDifferent PerspectivePreconceptions Author:Ciro Guerra
“Your perspective probably depends on where you live.” PerspectiveDependsWhere You Live Author:Amy Ray
“You sing about the things you're influenced by. So we've been big into sci-fi since we were kids, things like Star Trek etc. Then came movies like Terminator and Dune. Burton is also a really big reader and loves sci-fi novels which helps him write. It's also really cool he does that because it's through the perspective of how we see things going or possibly going.” WritingDoeHelpingBigsKidsStarsNovelPerspectiveReaderAnd LoveEtcSci FiReally Cool Author:Dino Cazares
“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.” WritingTryingSelfWantedSchoolSongVoicePerspectiveSingingHigh SchoolIntentionPopsTonePunkEmulateDichotomy Author:Laura Benanti
“I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.” ThinkingFirstsMeanPersonsSelfRunningTogetherFormCommunityConsciousnessForeverPerspectivePhilosophicalDebateTraditionalDeceptionOrganizedConspiracyCultOngoingSelf DeceptionFirst Person Author:Thomas Metzinger
“I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.” IfsFirstsBelieveHumansPersonsDifferentSelfMightI BelieveAnswersConsciousnessPerspectiveFineModelsOriginalsCarefulDistinctionLayersTransparencyFirst PersonSelf Consciousness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.” FirstsPersonsConsciousnessPerspectiveStableSubjectiveFirst Person Author:Thomas Metzinger
“For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.” FirstsHumansMeanPersonsSelfHuman BeingsLevelsKnowingPerspectiveModelsActiveFirst PersonProfilePhenomenalDistinctive Author:Thomas Metzinger
“I love travel shows. I love Anthony Bourdain. I love No Reservations. I always learn so much, and I wanted to see one from a gay perspective that explored LGBT communities around the world.” WorldShowsWantedCommunityPerspectiveGayAround The WorldLgbtReservationsLgbt CommunityNo Reservations Author:Ellen Page
“The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.” PeopleIfsPersonsIdeasHelpingBodyFilmFacesGuyWatchesSonPerspectiveShotsFamiliarGasConcentrationCategoriesCampsInteractionChamberConcentration CampGas Chambers Author:Bun B
“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.” WorldGivingLongHas BeensArtWarFilmFormWhiteRichEventsTelevisionPerspectiveDrugSeriesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IWireWar On DrugsRibbonsGreat FilmFilm And Television Author:Teju Cole
“Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us.” FirstsMadeDifferentPhilosophyShowsSeemsMightPossibilityPerspectiveOffersPagesArgumentPhilosophicalValuableAssumptionDifferent PlaceNew Possibilities Author:Philip Kitcher
“Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!)” WritingTwoNovelPerspectiveArgumentPhilosophicalAncientPhilosopherOfferingConsideringPhilosophical Questions Author:Philip Kitcher
“In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do some fairly standard philosophical analysis of ideas in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.” WayIdeasReadingPerspectiveStandardsPhilosophicalAnalysisVividSuggestingNew Perspective Author:Philip Kitcher
“I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works.” WayIdeasSeemsLiteratureLanguageAttentionPerspectiveMajorsDetailsVariousConnectingTheoreticalRespondingIlluminatingLiterary Works Author:Philip Kitcher
“Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can then begin. It does so by introducing new synthetic complexes, which we then reflect on from various points of view. When the complexes survive and grow, that initial showing has been philosophically decisive.” DoeHas BeensPhilosophyLiteratureGrowsViewsPerspectiveArgumentComplexesIncludingVariousValuablePoint Of ViewIntroducingInitialsSyntheticNew PerspectiveIntroducing New Author:Philip Kitcher
“Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies, but their effects are transitory: the new synthetic complex quickly falls apart. Proust's characters, by contrast, often achieve lasting changes of perspective.” WayHumansCharacterFallRecordsAchieveEffectsPerspectiveComplexesLastingTransformedContrastPortraitsFalling ApartEpiphanyTransitoryJoyceSyntheticProustLasting Change Author:Philip Kitcher
“The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death is another such moment. It would be interesting to explore Proust's great novel from the perspective of seeing how stable synthetic complexes are formed and modified.” MomentsWould BeInterestingNovelSeeingPerspectiveComplexesReachingGrandmotherBootsStableFinalityNarratorsSyntheticProustGreat Novels Author:Philip Kitcher
“I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.” ThinkingLastsWonderPerspectiveBrilliantIronyToneLast WordsMockery Author:Philip Kitcher
“Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).” DifferentEffectsPerspectiveConsciousPlentyNarrativeToneDevicesPassagesResonanceDifferent PerspectiveAdopting Author:Philip Kitcher
“Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in which profound struggles about identity and direction arise - struggles that Mann himself had not only reflected on but felt keenly. Visconti takes up this central focus of the novella, but he couples it with a more social perspective.” ThinkingKindAgeIndividualSocialFeltConsciousnessStruggleFocusIdentityPerspectiveCoupleProfoundArisePortraits Author:Philip Kitcher
“For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.” ImportantThreeCoursesLiteratureTermFictionPerspectiveReaderTenScoreDefiniteRemindersExaggerationFinnegans Wake Author:Philip Kitcher
“You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said 'why should you read when you could talk to other people?' The point of reading is that you get to deeply immerse yourself in a person's perspective. Right? Same thing with newspapers or phones or TVs. Soon it will be VR, I bet.” PeopleWayShouldFirstsPersonsSaidBookReadingTvsPerspectivePhonesNewspapers Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and they're not the symptom of the disease. They are the beta test of a cure for the perspective of the people.” PeopleLooksDifferentPerspectiveTrumpDiseaseTestsCuresSymptomsBeta Author:Ben Domenech
“There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have suggested that there are features of the first-person perspective that naturalism just cannot accommodate, whether it be qualitative character, or consciousness, or simply the ability we have to think of ourselves in a distinctively first-person manner.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsCharacterAbilityDealsNumbersConsciousnessPerspectivePhilosopherFeaturesFirst PersonAccommodateNaturalismQualitative Author:Hilary Kornblith
“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.” WayFirstsBelievePersonsI BelieveViewsDealsPerspectiveDeservePhilosopherVariousPoint Of ViewPsychologicalMechanismFirst PersonThis I Believe Author:Hilary Kornblith
“By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.” FirstsBelieveMayPersonsI BelieveViewsPerspectiveFirst TimePoint Of ViewFirst Person Author:Hilary Kornblith
“My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.” WorldKindDoneCertainPerspectiveAcademic Author:Paul Lansky
“I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.” ThinkingSometimesRealityViewsProducePerspectiveUniqueBordersOutsiders Author:Christopher Rice