“I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.” MadeWholeAbilityChangedMaterialsPerspectiveComedian Author:George Carlin
“I feel like when being raised in New York City I have a particular perspective on things like Gay issues maybe, because I'm in the middle of Manhattan.” FeelsCitiesIssuesMiddleNew YorkParticularPerspectiveGayRaisedNew York CityManhattanPerspective On Things Author:Joy Behar
“I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterSongNextCryPerspectiveBabyTownsAlbumsLove LifeFamily LifeDifferent CharactersCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksCountryRealityFilmLosesNumbersSawsParticularPerspectiveDiedYesterdayOther CountriesViewersBombing Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.” IfsDoneTogetherPiecesHavensPerspectiveCivilizationEgoDecentTranscendence Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.” KnowsDifferentPerspectiveOughtPhilosopherDifferent ThingsAspireSynthetic Author:Philip Kitcher
“My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.” TogetherViewsPositionPerspectiveConversationIdealsCurrentsWideExpertsDimensionsRepresentationConsensusPursued Author:Philip Kitcher
“I'm often quite gloomy about the prospects for the human future. But, although I have no competence to intervene directly in a political movement, I hope that what I write may, in combination with the suggestions of others, cause a shift in perspective that will inspire a world-wide movement to accept the only solution to climate change. And before it's too late.” WorldWritingHumansMayPoliticalCausesAcceptingMovementInspirePerspectiveLateSolutionsClimateClimate ChangeWideCombinationToo LateSuggestionsCompetenceGloomyProspectsPolitical MovementsBefore It's Too Late Author:Philip Kitcher
“From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.” WellsImportantFormPoliticalCertainPrinciplesViolenceGroupsExamplePerspectiveUniversalInjusticeLeagueDefenceSuperpowerIslamists Author:Alison Assiter
“Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.” ImportantFormPerspectiveUniversalRecogniseUniversalism Author:Alison Assiter
“However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.” ThinkingNeedsHumansDoeImportantHumanityChanceCommonParticularPerspectiveDependsLimitsAcceptedMetaphysicalOutlookRecogniseHuman NeedsCommon HumanityBeing Accepted Author:Alison Assiter
“Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.” WorldNeedsImportantFacesPerspectiveUniversalDividedUnjust Author:Alison Assiter
“I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.” IfsWorldWayLooksBookLaughingComedyHavensPerspectiveLoudFabulousLaugh Out LoudCandideLaugh Out Loud Funny Author:George Meyer
“If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.” IfsFormPerspectiveHabitPerceptionPatternsStatus Quo Author:Marianne Williamson
“The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.” FeelsMovementPerspectiveFeministSexualityCloudedFeminist MovementGloria Author:Amber Heard
“Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.” WayWantMayMeanPerspectiveTreatsWhat You WantTreatedGoldenAcknowledgeGolden Rule Author:David Livermore
“The best way to improve perspective taking is to see users up close.” WayPerspectiveBest WayUsers Author:David Livermore
“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.” WorldStatesLevelsConsciousnessMankindEventsPlanetsPerspectivePureReflectionMetaphysicalWorld Events Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."” IfsThinkingWorldWantWritingWould BeUsedSongSidesTroubleReadyPerspectiveRight NowMajorsLabelsInterpretationFlipWriting SongsNot Ready Author:Beth Ditto
“And it's given me great perspective. It makes me really focused and efficient, which - I was focused before I had babies but I wasted a lot of time. Prior to having babies I thought I was so busy and now I realize just how ignorant I was.” GivenRealizingPerspectiveBabyBusyFocusedIgnorantEfficientHaving A Baby Author:Kerri Walsh
“I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don't think they really are added to the end of life.” ThinkingWritingYearsMeanSaidEndsPerspectiveMemoirProsperousEnd Of Life Author:Anna Quindlen
“Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.” KnowsWellsLooksAmericaRiskMiddlePerspectiveEntrepreneurSizeDramaticSmall BusinessGood PlaceMultinationalsDramatic Change Author:Mitt Romney
“What outsourcing causes - what it's caused by, rather. I understand, for instance, how to read a balance sheet. I happen to believe that having been in the private sector for twenty-five years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created - that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand.” GivingYearsBelieveHappensJobsCausesPresidentFivePerspectiveBalanceGive MeTwentiesInstanceFive YearsPresident ObamaSheetsPrivate SectorTwenty FiveOutsourcingBalance Sheets Author:Mitt Romney
“It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.” WorldWayLooksLittlesCertainBitsDarkPerspectiveLittle BitNegativeStartingChanging The WorldLoserRedefiningOverbearing Author:Lupe Fiasco
“Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.” PeopleMenMindHeartHappensLawCoursesHouseBlackHappenedPerspectiveBattleHistorian Author:Isabel Allende
“I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.” IfsLittlesHas BeensEnoughShowsTelevisionPerspectiveFortunateCinematic Author:Bear McCreary
“Israelis are wrong in not looking for a change in the relationship with the United States that would put it more in perspective - that we are the great power, they are the minor power. I don't think there are a great many American parents who will want to sacrifice their soldiers and children so Israel can maintain the West Bank. When that becomes clear, I think Israel's days are numbered as an ally that is never questioned or criticized.” ThinkingWantChildrenStatesParentUnitedUnited StatesClearSacrificePerspectiveWestSoldierIsraelGreat MenAlliesMinorsGreat Power Author:Michael Scheuer
“Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and new ideas is incredibly gratifying.” KnowsWellsIdeasStoriesAbleSharePerspectiveShapesNew IdeasNew Perspective Author:Garth Kravits
“I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.” ThinkingDifferentHandsBlackPerspectiveGuitarDisappearHolesDifferent PerspectiveBlack Hole Author:Bill Orcutt
“As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.” EnoughStoriesYoungFeltMy OwnInterestingPerspectiveAdultsYoung AdultTeenager Author:Zach Condon
“I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.” PeopleWritingPerspectiveGender Author:Bradford Cox
“My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.” WritingBigsProcessHappenedPerspectiveImportanceWestNecksWriting ProcessSnapsParamount Author:Charles R. Morris
“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.” KnowsWayMindKindBodyWhitePerspectiveEuropeTraditionAverageCongregationCharismatic Author:Michael Emerson
“When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.” WorldIdentityPerspective Author:Victoria Legrand
“Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.” PeopleJobsNightSongEnjoyMagicPerspectiveFindingsGains Author:Justin Vernon
“I really like the Chris-R scene and of course the "you are tearing me apart Lisa" scene. The reason I love the Chris-R scene is because we worked really hard to finish it. It's not just that though, it brings people together. Everyone is one the roof together by the end of the scene. You see the perspectives of the different characters. I feel like with all the connections in this scene that the room connects the entire world” PeopleWorldFeelsDifferentEndsHardReasonCharacterTogetherCoursesRoomsPerspectiveSceneConnectionsRoofDifferent Characters Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.” ThinkingTryingMindLittlesRocksPerspectiveRock And Roll Author:Matt Berninger
“I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.” PeopleHappensRealizingMy OwnPerspectiveEverydayClarityInteractionEveryday LifeConfusingStraightforwardInventingWhatever Happens Author:Paul Banks
“So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment where I thought to myself, Oh, I need to write about Margaret Cavendish. She just kept taking over the book I thought I was writing.” NeedsWritingBookDifferentMomentsCharacterPerspectiveManifestationNot SureSingle Mom Author:Danielle Dutton
“If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.” IfsWantCountryPerspectiveCautiousTreason Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun. And from a work perspective, we have projects under construction all over the world, including many right here in the US.” WorldMeanHomeFunPerspectiveAmountProjectsFairsChaosIncludingConstructionToddlerUnder Construction Author:Ivanka Trump
“From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.” WantTryingImportantAsksEasyCompanyClearFiveFocusMinutesPerspectiveKeysBusyProductivityObjectivesDesksEmailFive MinutesDeckClearingPrioritization Author:Ivanka Trump
“We all have different perspectives but we tend not to disagree with each other very often in terms of where we want to get or where we want to be. So it's been amazing working with my brothers.” WantDifferentTermBrotherPerspectiveMy BrotherDisagreeDifferent Perspective Author:Ivanka Trump
“n terms of the logistics of that from a title perspective, we have not talked about that nor do we typically care very much. We're not large on bureaucracy. My brothers and I said to each other when we started in this business that as a collective we can do far more than any one of us can do individually. And that's really what guides our relationship - this sense of camaraderie. And it is a family business, and we work together collaboratively as a family.” SaidCareTogetherTermCan DoBrotherPerspectiveGuidesTitlesMy BrotherCollectivesWorking TogetherOur RelationshipBureaucracyCamaraderieLogistics Author:Ivanka Trump
“A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.” LooksKindCertainPerspective Author:Edward Hirsch
“I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.” WayFeelsWritingSelfEnoughDreamSeeingPerspectiveProtectTwentiesDistanceYounger Self Author:Dani Shapiro
“I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.” ThinkingWritingActingStudyPerspective Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.” LifeInspirationalNeedsEyeViewsEmotionTearsPerspectiveOptimismMeaningful LifeGet WellOptimism In LifeChallange Author:Alex Tan
“In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.” TwoCharacterStrongWisePerspectiveWeakTestsFinalsStrikesFoolishAnalysisLengthConsideringViewpointsTest Of Character Author:Mike Dooley
“A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.” PeopleHumansArtUseHomeEarthSpiritualCausesProcessWaterNaturalBrainPracticeMillionsSunProduceFlowerPerspectiveLessonsOffersProjectsGardenPlantSmellGenuineSoilBiologyAdmirationChemistryPassagesGardeningEcologyOngoingParticipatingImpartHuman BrainGeologySpiritual PracticePassage Of TimePharmacyBrain PowerMeteorologyArt Projects Author:Jim Nollman