“I think comedy because of the Internet it has a bigger audience, a bigger fan base. It has fans that understand comedy more than any generation before because there is more guys like you, more guys like me, more guys like Louie CK who talks about it a lot. When you get a chance to see perspective that I don't think you ever got to see before.” ThinkingGuyChanceAudienceComedyGenerationsFansLike YouPerspectiveInternetBiggerLike Me Author:Joe Rogan
“I believe that women are rising to the occasion to tackle many challenges. Whether it's issues that relate to prosperity, the defense of country, the economy of our country; issues that have traditionally been considered women's issues like health and education and the environment are now being defined in terms of our national strength. So I think women have made a big difference in putting things in perspective.” ThinkingBelieveMadeCountryBigsI BelieveTermChallengesDifferencesEconomyIssuesEnvironmentPerspectiveProsperityDefenseOur CountryDefinedOccasionsRelateRisingHealth And Education Author:Nancy Pelosi
“All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.” WorldPerspectivePrivilegedArrivals Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.” DifferentViewsPerspectiveHealthyConstantPoint Of ViewBack And ForthDifferent PerspectiveHealthy Marriage Author:Stephen Marche
“One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.” LostLosesPerspectiveKeel Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.” WayDifferentTechnologyPerspectiveUniqueDiscoveryInnovationDifferent PerspectiveCombiningScientific Discovery Author:Charles Koch
“Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.” WayDifferentTechnologyPerspectiveInnovationInnovativeDifferent Perspective Author:Charles Koch
“There is no reason at all to think that creatures with very different purposes and concerns would arrive at the scientific image, and no reason at all to accuse such creatures of getting the world wrong - a point that both Chuang Tzu and Nietzsche make when comparing human and animal perspectives.” ThinkingWorldHumansDifferentReasonPurposeAnimalPerspectiveCreaturesConcernCompareNo ReasonHumans And Animals Author:David E. Cooper
“Know who you are and possess that confidence and just tune out the naysayers and the critics in a way where you feel like you possess a certain patience and perspective that many of us in the bubble lack.” KnowsWayFeelsCertainLike YouPerspectiveWho You AreCriticsTunesBubblesNaysayers Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.” IfsWayBelieveUseUsedLanguageI BelieveOpinionChangedPerspectiveUniversalInstrumentsFeministArtificialSensibility Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“The thing about kids is that they don't have the broader perspective of what's happening on a national level. Anything that's going wrong in their world, they somehow assume is unique to them and they're somehow to blame. It turns into an issue of shame.” WorldKidsTurnsLevelsIssuesPerspectiveUniqueHappeningsShameBlameAssuming Author:Lori Silverbush
“People may be vaguely aware that there's suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, but simply because the media are filled with American-centric versions, we still see the experiences through the American perspective. We are just completely ignorant of what might be happening to other people.” PeopleMayStillsMightSufferingMediaPerspectiveHappeningsFilledIraqIgnorantVersionsAfghanistan Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.” LittlesSometimesBitsChallengesPerspectiveLittle BitRelative Author:Nick Viall
“I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.” ThinkingMeanDoeRealReadingEasyPerspectiveCriticsBelieverFiltersSelective Author:Rick Warren
“When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to raise a child has passed - which is, on average, about 4 years.” PeopleYearsChildrenBodyFallThreeInterestLosesPerspectivePeriodsDrugRaisesFalling In LoveAveragePartnersInternalsThree YearsDeclineSignalsInfatuationZeal Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“It's important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.” ThinkingShouldImportantRememberPoliticalLife IsLaughingComedyPerspectiveJokesDuesGrantsCosmicOutlook Author:John Mulaney
“We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.” MenStoriesWhiteFailingMediaPerspectiveNewsPrioritiesWhite ManNews Media Author:Catherine Mayer
“If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.” PeopleIfsWantTryingMindShowsInterestingWatchesPerspectiveProgramComplexesIdeologyJournalismUrgentPrisms Author:Jon Stewart
“We live in a state-centric world faced with global-scale problems that cannot be met by the actions of single states, no matter how powerful, if assessed from the perspective of military capabilities.” IfsWorldMatterStatesProblemActionPowerfulMilitaryPerspectiveMetsScalesCapability Author:Richard A. Falk
“For me the movie [Fruitvale Station ] wasn't about that. The movie's about [Oscar Grant] life. And what happens on the platform is a very short part of the film. It's from Oscar's perspective. From the perspectives of the relationships that he's involved with.” HappensFilmPerspectiveInvolvedStationsGrantsPlatformsOscars Author:Michael B. Jordan
“As I've matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.” PersonsTodayBitsResponsibilityRolesRegretPerspectiveHopefullyRepresentativesMaturedHopefully Not Author:Barbara Crampton
“When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet the people live and get by every day walking in the roads, living this super simple life, and they're still happy. It is an experience that keeps you humble, puts things in perspective.” PeopleWorldYearsStillsDifferentDreamThreeSimpleLandStudentsPerspectiveWalkingYears AgoPhonesHumbleReportsThree YearsMobileSimple LifeMobile PhonesMadagascar Author:Irina Shayk
“Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.” WayMadeStatesPoliticalSocialCasesGonePolicyMovementPerspectiveStatementsLiberalismLeapProtectedAdjustmentInterferenceRejectingVenezuelaPolitical MovementsNicaraguaBoliviaEcuadorSocial Policy Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.” PeopleNeedsWholeAmericaGrowthVisionDemocracySawsGroupsSourcePerspectiveEuropeIncludingAncientImprovementRevolutionaryTrendsConquestGreeceMedievalBourgeoisNew PerspectiveAncient GreeceMayansMedieval EuropeIncas Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a pretext. Those people that really violate human rights [the West] violate human rights from all perspectives. Typically on the subject of human rights regarding the nations from the south and Cuba they say, "They are not democratic societies, they do not respect human rights, and they do not respect freedom of speech".” PeopleHumansPlayUseNationsTermDemocracyRightsSubjectsPerspectiveSpeechDemocraticWestSouthHuman RightsFreedom Of SpeechCubaDemocratic SocietyPretextPlay On Words Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.” PeopleThinkingLittlesInterestBuildingPerspectiveModelsIdealsDemocraticPhilosopherGreekContributionLatinCubaCubanBuilding UpLatin American Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked me Jock Semple and I became very good friends. That gave me a whole new perspective on forgiveness.” PeopleKnowsWholeCoursesRacePerspectiveVery GoodOfficialsGood FriendBostonJocksNew PerspectiveVery Good Friends Author:Kathrine Switzer
“I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.” IfsWantShouldKindArtMadeSaidUseKidsUsedStuffClassPerspectiveLessonsDrawsWorriedRulersVocalGet RealArt Class Author:Eddie Vedder
“Hip hop, this is church. Church, this is hip-hop. Y'all need to meet. I know you have some misconceptions about them, I know you have some misconceptions about them. Let's work through this because there's a lot of false perspective.” KnowsNeedsChurchPerspectiveHip HopHipsHopsMisconception Author:LeCrae
“Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the United States and have something to say about the United States and my perspective and my lens is going to affect my judgment on everything" and that's the way a Christian should be. I'm going to invade culture and my lens and perspective is going to influence culture just as much as anyone else's.” PeopleWayWantShouldSaidStatesChristianCultureBlackPresidentUnitedUnited StatesInfluencePerspectiveJudgmentBarackBlack PeopleLenses Author:LeCrae
“My mission is to change the way people see the world. Everybody has a perspective or a lens they see things through, and hopefully I can adjust that lens or change that lens so that they see things from a different perspective, a different lens.” PeopleWorldWayI CanDifferentPerspectiveMissionsHopefullyLensesDifferent Perspective Author:LeCrae
“If you listen to certain things then you can hear music everywhere. But it's your perspective on 'what do I listen to, why do I listen, what's going on.' And then you have music.” IfsCertainPerspective Author:Pantha du Prince
“I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.” ThinkingWorldTryingDifferentHumanityUnderstandingCommonFashionTaughtPerspectiveBenefitsApproachEmpathyEndeavorDividesWorld HistoryCommon Humanity Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng
“Henry David Thoreau is very independent-minded, very iconoclastic, and had quite a corrosive sense of humor. I think that I probably have grown up to have a Thoreauvian perspective on many things. Though in other ways I live a life he would not have approved of. He believed to simplify, simplify, simplify. Make your life very clear and plain and meditative and not confused. Sometimes my life, in fact, is confused.” ThinkingWaySometimesFactsClearPerspectiveIndependentConfusedSense Of HumorSimplifyApprovedDavid Thoreau Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.” PeopleWayCountryMightPerspectiveSurpriseConservativeFlexibilityHollandSmall Countries Author:Ari Marcopoulos
“I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young minded perspective and if you're not smart enough to realize that in life evolution is real. What that means is, we all are evolving and getting older every second of the day. That means it's about what you know, what you do and how hard you press the button to make it go. If you're not willing to put it in the time, energy and work in, then it doesn't matter how young you are. You'll be here and gone tomorrow if you don't learn something.” IfsKnowsMeanRealMatterHardEnoughFactsTodayYoungEnergyRealizingAnswersGoneYouthWillingPerspectiveEvolutionTomorrowSmartPressesEvolveDespiseButtonsGetting OldGetting OlderEvery Second Author:Sean Garrett
“At the end of the day, it's all about how you were raised and your perspective. It's all about if you want to win. If you don't want to win anymore, then you can't win. If you're not in the game, you can't win the game. If you give up, let it be your perspective. I've been taught long ago that I'll never be nothing.” IfsWantGivingLongEndsGamesWinningTaughtPerspectiveGiving UpRaisedThe End Of The DayLong AgoCan't Win Author:Sean Garrett
“I often say time is malleable, but the reception of an artwork is malleable too. When the culture changes, the view and the way you see that work, your perspective, changes. It's something that you can't control. It's sort of daunting and intimidating, but at the same time very fascinating, extremely fascinating.” WayCultureViewsPerspectiveFascinatingIntimidatingArtworkReceptionCulture Change Author:Sanford Biggers
“Growing up in the suburbs, the worst part was definitely being black. The best part was maybe also being black. Just having that perspective, being on the outside while also being on the inside. That's kind of how I've felt my whole life.” KindWholeFeltBlackGrowing UpGrowingWorstPerspectiveWhole LifeSuburbs Author:Ian Simpson
“My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express something that is more a collective expression of crisis.” TryingSubjectsExpressionPerspectiveCrisisDrivenCollectives Author:Shirin Neshat
“I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the show feeling like they've seen something singular. It's not about smashing someone over the head from the jump-off.” PeopleShowsFeelingsJobsPerspectiveConversationApproachFundamentalsSmashing Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was through therapy, probably. You have to rebuild and you also have to grow in your understanding of whatever it is your parents are facing, and that takes a major, profound shift of perspective from being a child.” ChildrenAgeGrowsParentUnderstandingPerfectClearPerspectiveMajorsEmpathyProfoundTherapy Author:Ira Sachs
“That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now it's like if you don't agree with somebody, you probably aren't going to like their jokes. I think comedians are starting to write for their audience and not towards the country.” IfsThinkingWritingCountryAudienceComedyPerspectiveJokesAgreeStartingComedianAnnoyingStarting To Write Author:Michael Che
“The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.” PeopleWorldWantDifferentRealityWalksWorstPerspectiveComputerTheaterThings To DoWorst ThingsAnimatedDifferent WorldsMovie Theater Author:Genndy Tartakovsky
“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with minimum contact with reality who has trouble tying his f**king shoes! And he's supposed to be political? A bus driver has a better perspective on things. Artists are completely indulgent.” PersonsArtProblemRealityPoliticalArtistTalkingTroublePerspectiveKingsTerribleArt IsShoesContactSupposed To BeDriversBusMinimumBus DriverPerspective On ThingsPolitical Art Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“I don't think the possibility for beauty can be foreclosed, because beauty can take so many forms. There is beauty that arises from the unexpected, when our familiar perspectives are thrown off balance. There is also the beauty that paradoxically comes out of the tragic, that emerges because we are reminded of what is no longer there, that becomes powerful because of what is absent.” ThinkingFormPowerfulPossibilityPerspectiveBalanceAriseFamiliarUnexpectedThrownTragicAbsent Author:Sze Tsung Leong
“I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international.” PersonsHomeFeltBlackPerspectiveInternationalInevitableExileMigrationAway From HomeBlack Person Author:Kwame Dawes
“If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.” IfsThinkingWritingKindPlayExistenceNovelAudiencePerspectiveEasierTheaterMeetingsGet UpRoughLackingPlaywrightNovel Writing Author:Tony Kushner
“Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.” ThinkingNeedsTryingWellsMeanHas BeensImportantAttitudeChristianityGonePerspectiveGoes OnCitizensTraditionRootsToleranceDespiteFeaturesGlobal Citizen Author:Ninian Smart
“On September 11 one of the messages on our answering machine was from The New Yorker saying get down here right away for a special issue we'll be doing. That seemed so irrelevant to me, considering the cataclysm. I went to my studio for a while and I was processing the news. Because when we were in the thick of it, it just felt like Mars Attacks!, Is Paris Burning?, and I had no perspective. For a while, I thought I should go down and look for bodies. At the same time, since The New Yorker was looking for images, I thought, "Well, I'm more trained to look for images than for bodies."” SpecialPerspectiveSeptemberIrrelevantSeptember 11 Author:Art Spiegelman