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“This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And it accepts those difficulties and pain as such. I think there's a wonderful forgiveness that can come over you, if you have that perspective on it.”

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Author:Joan Osborne

“Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective.”

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Author:Joan Osborne

“This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as a state senator; how my perspectives around the issues of the day are shaped by my background.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she handled emails, that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties.”

“Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“It is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime.”

Important Today Justice Figures Perspective Decided Looking Back Backwards

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women.”

Thinking Happens Comedy Perspective Parenthood Ripe

Author:Mila Kunis

“For me, my lack of patience in real life - I have always had very little patience. It's been very much my downfall in life. But having a child puts it in perspective. Very quickly you're like, "Oh, I need to learn what patience is."”

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Author:Mila Kunis

“There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.”

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Author:Karina Longworth

“Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, "Come on man, don't get your head all swollen. Life and time itself will give you perspective on what you're doing." So, that's actually what's always been a reminder in my own head.”

Knows Men Giving Kind My Own Perspective Teenager Reminders Swollen Life And Time

Author:Chuck D

“You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective.”

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Author:Chuck D

“I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.”

Journey Share Willing Perspective Personal Experiences My Journey

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.”

Years Universe Perspective Billions

Author:Moby

“From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for.”

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Author:David Wolfe

“Look at it from [Vladimir] Putin's perspective, right. He's a trained intelligence officer, worked for the KGB, very talented, manipulated people much smarter than Donald Trump. He played this perfectly, right. He saw that Donald Trump wanted to be complimented.”

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Author:Michael Morell

“From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played.”

Might Heard Perspective Trump Compliment Putin Being Played

Author:Michael Morell

“I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.”

Knows Mean I Can Hard Would Be Perspective Love Means

Author:Aaron Bruno

“I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Perspective Overcoming Obstacles Tiny Every Second

Author:Nikki Reed

“If I've been hurt, I'm not one of those people who can hide it or bury it deep within. I give myself time to work through it, cry, journal, pray, call my best friends. Then I try to take a step back and get perspective. I try to remind myself of all the positive things in my life and do my best to let it go.”

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Author:Kelly Stables

“A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.”

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Author:Ruth Simmons

“The most challenging obstacle I've had to overcome was my endometriosis diagnosis. Besides the physical pain that I had to endure, I had to completely change my perspective on food. It was a huge challenge to have to change the way I'd eaten for so long.”

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Author:Tia Mowry

“The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My perspective on those issues had changed a lot. Without going into nerdy details about that play, there was something that still stuck with me. I still had the same joy in that dialogue and David Mamet's rhythm in terms of his writing. I felt like there was still something to explore.”

Writing Stills Play Age Joy Felt Term Differences Issues Changed Perspective Bills Details Stuck Dialogue Rhythm Nerdy Age Difference

Author:Julia Stiles

“If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.”

Helping Perspective

Author:Tony Robbins

“I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.”

Feels Years Young Perspective

Author:Robert Plant

“From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.”

Matter Names Perspective Bin Laden

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms. Merkel were reelected.”

Ifs Would Be Perspective Vote Be Good Germany Polish Right To Vote

Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

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Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry.”

Knows Years Done Kids Natural Perspective Industry Albums Queens

Author:Mic Geronimo

“I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.”

Way Stories Fun Perspective Originals

Author:Jack Black

“Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna say anything yet because I don't know and it's too early] is a place in the weird town that I'm trying to create and its Cry Baby's perspective throughout this album. You're not learning about her, you're learning about the place that she's in and her perspective. Down the line for sure I will think of other characters in this world.”

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Author:Melanie Martinez

“I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.”

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Author:Gillian Jacobs

“It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.”

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Author:Sanaa Lathan

“I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go through what is happening, that gives me some perspective. So I think it always helps. It always helps to have someone who has traveled the world or seen a different way to do something. That helps give you perspective.”

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Author:Trevor Noah

“Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.”

Ifs Knows Years Different Imagine Perspective Years Ago Consent Being A Woman Different Perspective

Author:Nate Parker

“I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember with the same element of reality or truth what life was like a month ago. All perspectives on the past are entirely relative.”

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Author:Dan Mangan

“If [after one role] you believe that you've mastered acting and you don't have to study the craft or get a deeper perspective, then you're not going to succeed.”

Ifs Believe Acting Roles Study Perspective Succeed Deeper Crafts

Author:Usher

“I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.”

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Author:Vera Nazarian

“If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Should Different Stories Moving Grace Missing Perspective Spots Rooted Keep Moving Different Perspective

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.”

“Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that "appreciates" grows in value. With the power tool of appreciation, you get the benefit of both perspectives: as you learn to be consistently thankful and approving, your life will grow in value.”

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Author:Doc Childre

“Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.”

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Author:Doc Childre

“What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment.”

“One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.”

People Country Felt Fate Perspective Thirds Meetings Ill

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

“Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.”

World Way Art Form Universe Seeing Perspective Art Is Window Another Way Spectacular Seeing The World

Author:Claudia Gray

“Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.”

Social Simple Decision Results Mistake Perspective Aspect Dues Decision Making Paradox Utility Inadequate

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

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