Best Perspective Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 23

“From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.”

War Would Be Age Earth Order Process Mankind Perspective Nuclear Destroyed Ice Layers Suggestions Indication Nuclear War Ice Age Ozone Ozone Layer Ozone Depletion

Book:Thinking Unth 80SP

Source: Thinking Unth 80SP

“Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.”

Has Beens Matter Wise Magic Perspective Wine Disaster Firm Inconvenience Counselor Wands Magic Wands

Author:Duff Cooper

“In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.”

Mind Able Certain Perspective Distance Rational

Book:Remember, now be here, now here be

Source: Remember, now be here, now here be

“The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.”

World Different Facts Influence Theory Perspective Degrees Perception Expectations Notion Casts Arise Colour Different Perspective Old Picture

Author:Niles Eldredge

“Any religion is a perspective upon existence.”

Existence Perspective

Book:Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library

Source: Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library

“Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]”

Stories Felt Views Environment Streets Perspective Wall Type Creating Unique Understood Female Exciting Inspired Males Feminist Point Of View Etc Agendas Portraits Equity Arbitrage

Author:Meera Menon

“Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent or hard work of the people within that pool, but it does narrow the field of stories that have been told, and of the creative ideas and perspectives out there.”

People Doe Has Beens Ideas Hard Stories Opportunity Creative Talent Fields Color Hard Work Perspective Pool Diminish Creative Ideas

Author:Joe Robert Cole

“Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.”

Men Judging Perspective Distance

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.”

Art Reality Form Perspective Tragedy Profound Genre Artificial Naturalist Pristine

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.”

Ifs Writing Would Be Political Difficult Fiction Moral Perspective Ironic Realism Compass Absent Suggesting

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.”

Ifs Ends Play Character Stories Dies Voice Novel Generations Perspective Tragedy Replaced Vigorous Dominance Younger Generation

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.”

Perspective Perception Fascinating New Perspective

Author:Tim Gunn

“If you really were aware of the Earth in a singular context, putting it into the perspective of the galaxy, for example, then you would see that it is not infallible, that it is just part of a much bigger system that is part of a much bigger system and onward.”

Ifs Earth Example Perspective Bigger Galaxy Infallible

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.”

Want May Stories Television Tvs Perspective Cousin Barbecue Watching Tv

Author:Ed Gordon

“One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.”

Knows Years Done Shows Audience Perspective Decades Magazines Who We Are

Author:Ed Gordon

“People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.”

People Sides Judging Perspective Empathy Starting Quitting Judging Others

Author:Sterling K. Brown

“We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought if we pursue the project with reliance on science broadly and on our full span of epistemic competences, including the empirical as well as the a priori.”

Ifs Wells Perspective Projects Including Theology Pursue Faculty Reliance Competence

Author:Ernest Sosa

“The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.”

Turns Games Perspective Activity Gym Jungle

Author:Ian Bogost

“So many of my friends are older, and the people I work with are older. I guess I've gotten used to hearing people say, "Oh, you're so young," even though I never really agreed with that. Now I get their perspective.”

People Young Used Perspective My Friends Hearing

Author:Margot Robbie

“I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.”

Mother Father My Own Perspective Evident Outlook Entrepreneurial

Author:Lewis Schiff

“As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.”

Way Believe Wanted Fighting Achieve Perspective Grew Members Findings Grew Up Committed Minorities Outsiders Entrepreneurial Persecuted Achieving Success

Author:Lewis Schiff

“Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.”

Culture Lost Perspective

Author:Jill Stein

“It's interesting to play that [ Thomas in The Maze Runner], actually. The audience gets to see the character discover who he is, things that he never even knew about himself. I love that Thomas starts out as the newbie, as the 'Greenie', and the audience kind of experiences that through his perspective. It's really cool to watch him discover these leadership qualities that he has, and the way you approach it... I guess, just honestly. As honest as you can, really.”

Way Kind Play Character Interesting Quality Watches Audience Honest Perspective Approach Honestly Runners Really Cool Mazes Leadership Qualities Maze Runner

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.”

Perspective Objectives Journalism Journalist

Author:Marisa Tomei

“When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.”

Way Feels Littles Persons Doe Age Young Bits Figures New York Perspective Fit Little Bit Ideals Moved

Author:Morgan Saylor

“I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.”

People Knows Kind My Own Perspective Admire Good Sense

Author:John C. Reilly

“I think we come at it from somewhat different perspectives. You know, Donald [Trump] was very fortunate in his life, and that's all to his benefit.”

Thinking Knows Different Perspective Trump Benefits Fortunate Different Perspective

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.”

People Trying My Own Perspective

Author:Misty Copeland

“If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.”

Ifs World Humans Book Human Beings Opinion Perspective Conscious

Author:Ransom Riggs

“If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other perspective. You need people to want to be there so they can talk at length and want to continue talking to you.”

People Ifs Want Needs Humans Talking Greater Conditions Regret Perspective Length Human Condition Participants Participating

Author:Rod Blackhurst

“People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.”

People Dream Bigs Achieve Special Perspective Canada Entrepreneurial Something Special

Author:Joe Mimran

“I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.”

Remember Perspective

Author:Martha Ronk

“Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to go for hikes that took me there. But my perspective was most often down at ground level, trying to see quite tiny exquisite flowers.”

Writing Trying Levels Class Happened Teaching Flower Perspective University Tiny Exquisite Colorado Alpine

Author:Martha Ronk

“I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has no interest in becoming an insider, let alone in what that insider perspective on [Buckminster Fuller] has come to be and come to represent.”

Stills Today Interest Perspective Becoming Outsiders Insiders Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats

“They're mounting a campaign right now with the ACLU and a lot of different organizations advocating for [Edward Snoden] pardoning before [Barack] Obama leaves office. Wouldn't it be incredible to see something like that happen? I don't know what we can expect. I am interested in the different points and perspectives that people have.”

People Knows Different Happens Perspective Right Now Office Organization Incredibles Campaigns Barack Advocating

Author:Zachary Quinto

“The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.”

People Two Book Stories Father Gone Perspective Towns Love Story Vacation Small Town Bookstores Cornwall

Author:Theodora Goss

“The Thorn and The Blossom can be read from either side - you can choose whether to read it from Brendan's or Evelyn's perspective first, and each one will give you a different sense of what happens in the story.”

Giving Firsts Different Stories Happens Sides Perspective

Author:Theodora Goss

“The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on projects for the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and when he got the idea for an accordion-style book, he called and asked if I could write the story for it. I told him that I would love to try! And I knew it had to be a love story, because that's the sort of story you really want to hear from both perspectives. I mean, imagine if Pride and Prejudice were told from Darcy's perspective as well as Elizabeth's. It would be quite a different story!”

“Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.”

Loses Perspective Where You Are

Author:Rob Halford

“I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.”

People Trying Looks Littles Different Moving Bits Perspective Little Bit Boundaries Needles Different Perspective

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.”

Made Film Father Perspective Make Sense

Author:Sonia Braga

“"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.”

Song Perspective Blue Versions Bob Dylan Tangled Dissolution

Author:Bob Dylan

“The one difference I have noted is that it's made me more tender to my students and to young people particularly. It's made me mellower. I began to have a different perspective, because I may not be around much longer to be hassled by life's pressures.”

People May Made Different Young Differences Students Perspective Pressure Different Perspective I May Not Be

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.”

Different Interest My Own Brother Perspective My Brother Upbringing

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half, you're really with Ethan. For the second half, you're with him, but also you're with the bad guys because he kind of becomes the bad guy. No one's really good in the movie.”

Firsts Kind Two Whole Guy Half Violence Perspective Valleys Bad Guys

Author:Ti West

“It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.”

Two Reason Moments Character Happens Violence Perspective Plot Valleys

Author:Ti West

“If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.”

People Ifs Hard Helping Pain Together Life Is Purpose Dies Answers Perspective Higher Eternal Noble This Life Working Together Purpose Of Life

Author:Max Lucado

“From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.”

People World Trying Has Beens Rooms Deals Figures Perspective Kitchen Bedroom Day To Day Living Room Garage How To Love

Author:Max Lucado

“Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.”

Ifs Knows Perspective

Author:Taylor Momsen

“Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naïve and potentially disastrous.”

Way Writing Suffering Animal Perspective Environmental Philosopher Reducing Predator Elimination Animal Suffering

Author:Dale Jamieson

Perspective Quotes

Related topics

Perspective Quotes