“Just look at Poland, a sort of European perspective this has. So we have an interest in seeing this relationship be a good one. We have a lot of historical ties of course, a history that we share. But this mustn't keep us from wherever we feel there are very grave differences of opinion to raise them with them.” FeelsLooksCoursesInterestDifferencesOpinionSeeingSharePerspectiveRaisesHistoricalGravesTiesPolandDifferences Of Opinion Author:Angela Merkel
“In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.” PeopleChildrenDoneLostMillionsRecordsPerspectivePleaseCriminalsBritainUnemployed Author:Nigel Farage
“I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.” WishPerspectiveRetiringHometown Author:David Ross
“I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.” YearsMotherChangedPerspective Author:Viola Davis
“We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'” PeopleShouldSpiritualMotherJesusChristWorryLike YouPerspectiveJesus ChristHatedSpiritual Family Author:Anthony Anderson
“We have some straight journalism, but then we have opinion and perspective. And I think a lot of people, especially young people, don't know how to tell the difference, and aren't motivated to tell the difference.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYoungDifferencesOpinionKnow HowPerspectiveJournalismMotivated Author:Susan Rice
“I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.” IdeasChangedPerspectiveSuspectsConfusingTabloidsTrivia Author:George Michael
“When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.” PeopleThinkingWritingI CanLyingPerspectiveElementsMouthsStrongestAccountantsTruth Comes Out Author:George Michael
“I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.” WayWantLooksDifferentEndsAsksCuttingHappenedPerspectiveReaderDown AndCleanSlipsChaptersBleedingDifferent PerspectiveSlyStilettos Author:Kathryn Harrison
“Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.” Life IsPerspectivePro Life Author:Nat Hentoff
“Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how it feels to be a wife/mother/sister/name your poison in today's world. But this story [The Nightingale ] is told from the perspective of two sisters during the German occupation of France in WWII.” WorldFeelsTwoStoriesTodayMotherNamesWifePerspectiveFrancePoisonOccupationWwiiNightingalesToday's WorldTwo SistersWife Mother Author:Megan Chance
“Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway.” RunningJobsInterestStepsPositionPerspectiveTrumpConflictMeaninglessPresidencyFull Time JobsConflict Of InterestStepping Back Author:Reince Priebus
“I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something.” MeanChildrenSaidStatesKidsRememberYoungSpeakNationsPresidentUnitedMoralUnited StatesPerspectiveDaughterDeserveAgreeWorkersDefinitionsBoundariesBordersMy DaughterActivistBetter LifeHondurasUndocumented Workers Author:Barack Obama
“If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.” IfsHappensDecisionPerspectiveEthicsGovernanceRecogniseSlipperySlopesRight DecisionSlippery SlopeWrong Decision Author:Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
“You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.” PeopleWayWantHumansKidsSidesTeachHuman NatureHonestyPerspectiveSkillsConflictBehaviorEmpathyAppreciateDisagreement Author:Ross W. Greene
“Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.” SpiritualPoorPerspectiveWeakProphetMuhammadWidowsOrphanCastroProphet Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.” CuttingFootballPerspectiveHungGood SensePro Football Author:Jack Kemp
“The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.” Life IsChildhoodPerspectiveNurtureIdiocy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Women tend to have a better track record in investing - when they invest - than men do, because they tend to take a longer-term perspective. They tend to trade less. They tend to shift in and out of stocks or mutual funds less often.” MenTermRecordsPerspectiveTradeInvestingTrackFundMutualTrack RecordMutual Fund Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“I think the goal is in general to broaden my fans' perspectives and their horizons. Not to be cliché. But to introduce them to things that they may not have introduced to themselves.” ThinkingMayGoalFansPerspectiveHorizonIntroducing Author:Miguel
“I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.” PersonsBigsHonestPerspectiveMusic IsWho You AreRepresentation Author:Miguel
“What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.” KnowsIdeasMomentsBigsNightMissingPerspectiveDrinkMusic IsClubsUrbanOne NightOne Night StandBootyUrban Music Author:Miguel
“Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of my "spells" I think it varies; my music communicates with some, and I think it has had a positive influence on the minds of those who like it. I hope it helped them see the world from a different perspective.” ThinkingWorldMindIdeasDifferentInfluenceEffectsPerspectiveCommunicateSpellsVaryDifferent PerspectivePositive Influence Author:Varg Vikernes
“TV is part of your life - it makes you feel connected to the rest of the world - as opposed to someone else's perspective crushed into a few hours.” WorldFeelsHoursTvsPerspectiveConnectedCrushed Author:Zoe Kravitz
“Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the market. Through the FOURWALLS Film Project, we want to get an accurate picture of the London housing situation through the eyes of the people that live there, and promote discussion around it.” PeopleWantEndsEyeFilmSituationFocusPerspectivePoliticianProjectsPropertyExtremesLondonJournalistDiscussionExpertsAccurateHousingThrough The Eyes Author:David Lammy
“I hope we get a real diversity in perspectives from the good, the bad and the ugly. I love living in London so I hope there are submissions that celebrate the City while also showing that there are many challenges we need to face together.” NeedsRealTogetherFacesChallengesCitiesPerspectiveDiversityUglyLondonCelebrateSubmissionGood The Bad And The Ugly Author:David Lammy
“To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night, I feel like there's a lot of whining about whether or not you use Asian or the words Asian or Oriental, and how it's going to offend somebody, I mean give me - I mean, just shut up.” PeopleGivingFeelsMeanUseNightStrugglePerspectiveGive MeWinterShut UpAsianBack WhenWhiningStruggling To Survive Author:Maynard James Keenan
“I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting their views into the congressional process, you're going to have a skewed outcome.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGivingCountryProcessViewsPerspectiveOutcomes Author:Keith Ellison
“Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.” MeanDiesPerspectiveConstantRoutineFarmingAnd OffGrids Author:Amy Pietz
“It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentStoriesKidsArtistColorPerspectiveHealthyComputerBirdBluePopsButtonsLiteralOutlinesDifferent PerspectiveBluebirdColor Blue Author:Julie Taymor
“I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that.” ImportantSometimesMatterSubjectsPerspectiveCamerasObviousSatisfiedSubject MatterExperimentationPlayfulness Author:Michael Kenna
“For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I practice doubt as a way to push myself into alternative compositions by selective focus, different speeds of exposure, and unusual perspectives.” KnowsWayDifferentPracticeDoubtFocusPerspectiveAdvantagePhotographSpeedAlternativesDigitalUnusualCompositionExposureSelective Author:Michael Kenna
“I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex.” WorldFeelsChildrenSchoolGrowsWhiteGrowing UpPerspectiveComplexesInstanceUnconsciousSuperiorityInferiorityInferiority ComplexProvincialismSuperiority Complex Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.” ShouldProblemGrowsRaceClassSeeingPerspectiveHopefullyWiserAdvocating Author:Killer Mike
“Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking into perspective.” KindPerspectiveFiftyShadeInstagramStalkingFifty Shades Author:Bella Heathcote
“It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.” PersonsSelfHumanityLevelsStepsAwarenessPerspectiveBehaviorSelf AwarenessConnecting Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual.” MenWritingShowsActionWantedLiteraturePartyPerspectiveIntellectualDecidedRelationRemainsSacredCommunistNeverthelessAutobiographyCommunist Party Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“Death is inevitable from the perspective that, if you're done here on earth, you have completed what is necessary to have been done here and you are now ready to further the discovery/growth of self which occur in the dimensions - it's time to go.” IfsHas BeensSelfDoneEarthGrowthReadyPerspectiveDiscoveryInevitableDimensions Author:Timothy Treadwell
“To me coming up short as a team and for me not having a great particular game was tough to swallow, but your life doesn't end there. You must put your life into perspective and keep moving on.” EndsMovingGamesTeamParticularPerspectiveToughKeep Moving Author:John Starks
“Countries and world leaders have changed their perspective towards India. This is the biggest benefit.” WorldCountryLeaderChangedPerspectiveBenefitsIndiaWorld Leader Author:Narendra Modi
“There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further, men are that they might have joy. In the eternal perspective, same-gender activity will only bring sorrow and grief and the loss of eternal opportunities.” MenMightJoyNextOpportunityLossGriefWifePerspectiveSorrowActivityHusbandEternalIncludingGenderUnitsFullnessPosterityNext LifeFamily Unit Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“I remember being fascinated by the graduated sizes and perspective on the sets [of Star Wars]. And how they put shorter people and kids in the uniforms and placed them in the distance to give the idea that these sets had more depth than they really did.” PeopleGivingIdeasWarKidsRememberStarsPerspectiveDistanceDepthSizeFascinatedUniforms Author:John Ratzenberger
“I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.” IfsThinkingWorldWellsChildrenEyePainUsedSufferingCoursesViewsPerspectiveComfortMeaningful Author:Zadie Smith
“I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.” WayKindActionExistenceWrittenProductsPerspectiveEssentialsEssenceOppositesArguingOne WayExistentialist Author:Zadie Smith
“I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.” KnowsTryingSeemsPleasurePerspectiveArgumentArguingNovelistsOnlineGrumpy Author:Zadie Smith
“I went out to cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fundamentally [in Buzzing at the Sill] because I was interested in war as a notion and in experiencing it. I was interested in history and how societies form. I was interested in the recent history of what had provoked these wars. So when I finally got out there, I was really seeing the wars through the American perspective, much more than through being embedded with American soldiers and Marines.” WarFormSeeingPerspectiveNotionSoldierIraqAfghanistanMarineEmbeddedProvokedAmerican Soldier Author:Peter van Agtmael
“I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim Jong-nam], this made be the straw that really does it. And as you know, just a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese stopped all coal imports from North Korea.So there are signs that are getting serious. I guess from the policy perspective from the U.S., I mean, we got to decide what`s important to us with China?” ThinkingKnowsMeanPersonsDoeMadeImportantFactsWeekPolicySeriousPerspectiveCoupleChinaProtectionChineseCoalKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanWhat's ImportantStrawsImportsKimNorth Korean Author:Christopher R. Hill
“I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant families who live in Delaware. I'm interested in reading things from different perspectives.” TwoBookDifferentReadingMinesPerspectiveImmigrantsLatinoDifferent PerspectiveDelaware Author:Laila Lalami
“Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It's an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.” WorldYearsRealHappensPastEnergyForceWaitingWaterNaturalLinesEventsPerspectiveSittingWaveStormSensualRepeatsHorizonEngagementGravityElsewhereAgain And AgainEchoesSurfingNatural WorldConnectednessForces Of NatureEvent Horizon Author:Tim Winton
“Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.” WorldDifferentHelpingPerspectiveOffersDifferent Things Author:Tim Winton