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“Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.”

Perspective Travel Grants Backyards

Author:Sara Genn

“The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.”

World Way Art Perspective Lessons Celebrate Interpretation Multiple Multiple Perspectives

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.”

Giving Art Form Lines Levels Emotion Perspective Elements Flow Paint Backgrounds Attributes Aesthetic Foreground Dabs

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.”

Trying School Form Artist Loses Study Perspective Tradition Ancient Drawing Chinese Conventions Decay Brushes Texture Fruition

Author:John French Sloan

“If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.”

Ifs Mean Perspective Drawing Bother Rest Of Your Life Bothering You

Author:Andrew Loomis

“When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.”

Children Four Subjects Perspective Drawing Good Relationship Sketching

Author:Arman

“I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.”

“I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.”

Thinking Feels May Important America Life Is Religious Christianity Perspective Judaism Evangelical American Life Religious Experience

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.”

Humans Spirit Human Beings Deals Leader Failing Serious Perspective Betrayal Human Potential

Book:Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

Source: Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader

“To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.”

Needs Turns Realizing Principles Struggle Plans Perspective Gains Salvation Our Time Savior Time Of Need Plan Of Salvation Positive Perspective

Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

“I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who sees a couple on her commute. Then one day she sees one of the people from the couple kiss another person. The next day they go missing. The story is told by 3 different perspectives, all characters you absolutely can't trust. It's an insane psychological thriller that's seriously addicting and the kind of book you can't put down.”

“The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.”

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.”

Feels Hate Three My Own Seeing Minutes Perspective I Hate Internals Trailers

Author:Damon Lindelof

“Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.”

Writing Long Book Helping Spiritual Morning Crazy Perspective Long Time Filled Obstacles Help Me Working It Spiritual Life Every Morning Journal Stressed

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.”

Men Turns Mistake Laughing He Man Perspective Historical Forty Nineteen Place And Time Historical Perspective

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.”

Thinking Knows Feels Years Wells Kind Children Enough Age Girl Realizing Loses Perspective Yeah Actresses Crops

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.”

“I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.”

Long Modern Building Perspective Connected Architecture Rising Lit Futuristic Eerie Rubble Modern Architecture Walkways

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.”

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“Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.”

Thinking Feels Made Different Lying Values Culture Evil Father Chance Race Perspective Fruit Details Good And Evil Sole Ugliness Our Father Linkages

Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

“No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.”

Knows Men Wells Reason Able Language Lord Wise Effects Perspective Mathematics Saint Philosopher Latter Length Portions Translations Zeal Bishops Antiquity Length Of Life

Author:Roger Bacon

“I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.”

Different Self Kids Wanted Young Perspective Immigrants Being Different

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.”

Giving Should Reading Interesting Fields Perspective Percent Clients

Book:You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are

Source: You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are

“It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.”

Should Belief Perspective Politician Realms

Author:Shinzo Abe

“I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Long Humor Happens Pain Term Effects Perspective Constant Endless Comic Long Term Sensibility Renewal Short Term Coping Filters

Author:Woody Allen

“This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.”

Ifs Way Feels Littles Age Lying Views Boys Perspective Painful Meaningless Deceiving Little Boys Grim Pessimistic

Author:Woody Allen

“Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.”

Thinking Needs Suffering Animal Perspective Fishes Meat Eggs Chickens Cows Lambs Whales

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

Should Art Hard Whole Form Force Mistake Taken Four Century Objects Painting Perspective Tradition Credit Disappear Renaissance Imposing Beholder Ghastly Redress Cezanne

Author:Georges Braque

“Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.”

Ifs Long Soul Hands Meditation Perspective Glasses Remove

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.”

People Thinking Mean Persons War Helping Might Water Perspective Clean Drinking Someday Frustrated Edits Drinking Water Clean Drinking Water

Author:Jimmy Wales

“After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.”

Said Kids Three Perspective News Prize Plus Weekend Daddy Nobel Nobel Peace Prize

Author:Barack Obama

“That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.”

Years Persons Character Lasts Loses Decision Break Four Serious Perspective Disaster Absurd Barack Abandon Insightful Four Years Admirable Composure

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.”

Used Perspective Distance Proportion Sense Of Humor

Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.”

Thinking Trying Years Happens Fields Perspective Years Ago Tragedy Humble Eight Modest Do The Best Appreciative Life Happens

Author:Brett Favre

“The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.”

Thinking Knows Giving Firsts Ideas Play Would Be Games Wish Football Perspective Down And Cameras Shoes No Idea Get Better Quarterback Humbling

Author:Steve Young

“Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We have to make an affirmative stand on it.”

Ifs Policy Perspective Organization Abuse Tolerance Video League Coming Out Stance Affirmative Domestic Abuse

Author:Steve Young

“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.”

“Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.”

World Should Wells Kind Self Certain Existence Consciousness Strange Perspective Please Following Deny Destroyed Explanation Rivals Identifying Existence Of God

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.”

Knows War Stories Kids Wanted Fighting My Own Perspective Drink Bars War Stories

Author:Mike Tyson

“I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.”

Thinking Feels Writing Trying I Can Helping Perspective Addresses New Things

Author:Rick Springfield

“If you view terrorism in Syria from one perspective and terrorism outside Syria from another perspective, it can create problems. If you view terrorism in categories such as good terrorism and bad terrorism, that too can create its own challenges.I think we should not look at these questions individually.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Problem Challenges Views Perspective Terrorism Categories Syria

Author:Narendra Modi

“I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and gave me a new perspective and a direction in life. I decided to dedicate myself to others and till date I am continuing to follow that decision.”

Reading Decision Vision Perspective Decided Continuing Sensitivity New Perspective Vivekananda

Author:Narendra Modi

“Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.”

Firsts Loss Liberty Perspective Personal Liberty

Author:John Longenecker

“The prospect of going home is very appealing.”

Home Perspective Prospects Going Home

Author:David Ginola

“Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.”

Should Different Common Perspective Areas Agreement Different Perspective Different Faiths

Author:Stephen Harper

“I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.”

Ifs Knows Mean Children Doe Has Beens Self Kids Lost Parent Sacrifice Perspective Married Absolutes Compromise Mates Thumbs Self Sacrifice

Author:Eva LaRue

“I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.”

Way Feels Persons Doe Stills I Can Different Whole Helping Dream Bigs Kids Girl Perspective Bronx

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.”

Long Christian Political Father Careers Perspective Communicate Active Evangelical

Author:Preston Manning

“Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.”

Difficult Perspective Civilization Tasks Historical Western Patterns Finished Analysis Variation Western Civilization Difficult Tasks Historical Change

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis