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“To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.”

Knows Different Self Matter Memories Ability Awareness Perspective Intellectual Training Conscious Technique Analysis Self Conscious Synthesis Conscious Awareness

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

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

“It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.”

World Love Mind Heart Eye Sides Emotion Vision Perspective My Heart Touched Meadows

Book:The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.”

May Littles Art Values Principles Novel Conditions Perspective Originals Valuable Insight Sufficient Works Of Art Aesthetic Originality Criteria Artwork

Author:James Young

“Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.”

People Important Seems Life Is Perspective Concern Important Things Cures Rejection Neurotic Trivia Interpersonal Fear Of Rejection

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?”

Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition

“Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them.. ..the two movements cannot be regarded as in opposition to each other, even though they started from opposite points; I maintain [an idea approved by Appolinaire and later by Matisse that they are two extremes of the same sign, tending to coincide at certain points which only the poetic instinct of the painter can discover: 'poetry' being the content and 'raison d'tre' of art.”

“A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.”

“Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.”

Want Should Able Hours Interesting Half Teacher Groups Subjects Students Perspective Conversation Profession Friendly Interesting Conversation

Author:William Glasser

“I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.”

Subjects Perspective Shapes Shadow Casts Patterns Shade Orchestration

Author:Bill Luff

“America desperately needs a moral rebirth. We need to implore God's blessings on our country and ask Him to forgive our sinfulness and restore our moral perspective.”

Needs Country America Asks Moral Perspective Blessing Forgiving Our Country Rebirth Sinfulness

Author:Donald Wildmon

“Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.”

Doe Existence Virtue Perspective Loathe

Author:Francoise Mallet-Joris

“Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.”

Thinking Whole Term Perspective Painter Abstract

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.”

Looks Different Sometimes Turns Perspective Different Perspective

Author:Jean Wilson

“I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between nature and man.”

Thinking Men Philosophy Together Nature Perspective Ancient New Perspective Man And Nature Ancient Philosophy

Author:Liu Dan

“For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.”

Giving Years Looks Long Quality Watches Study Tree Subjects Perspective Absolutes Lazy Silver Gray Sunlight Olives Olive Trees

Author:Ugo Mochi

“When Christ is the center of your focus, all else will come into proper perspective.”

Jesus Christ Focus Perspective

Author:Croft M. Pentz

“If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.”

Ifs Humans Mean Different Purpose Literature Human Nature Perspective Aliens Fantastic Different Things Contrast Robots What It Means To Be Human

Author:Jo Walton

“Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.”

Action Focus Fate Possibility Perspective Looking Back Depiction

Book:Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology

Source: Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology

“I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I've lost perspective. Mostly I'm just glad that I can be done with them.”

Long I Can Done Stories Eye Together Lost Judging Perspective Harder Grateful Glad

Author:Kelly Link

“From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.”

Form Left Grief Behinds Moral Perspective Shame Suicide Guilt Wounds Abandon Manipulation Metaphysical Left Behind Committing Suicide

Book:The Hauerwas Reader

Source: The Hauerwas Reader

“It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our math and physics are so freaking accurate we can say, "Hey, you know what? On this date at this time if we turn Cassini that way we'll see a moon over 2 million kilometers away pass in front of another one nearly 3 million kilometers away." Every morning, I have a 50/50 chance of finding my keys. That kinda puts things in perspective.”

Ifs Knows Way Turns Chance Morning Millions Fronts Perspective Keys Moon Findings Math Physics Hey Accurate Every Morning Hey You Saturn

Author:Phil Plait

“Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.”

Way Ideas Hard Helping Pieces Hard Work Perspective Easier Working It Collaboration Really Great Helping Each Other Rewriting

Author:Alan Menken

“The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.”

Kind Persons Moral Steps Figures Perspective Authority Ultimate Blind Insight Obedience Holiness Discernment Foresight Authority Figures Blind Obedience

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.”

Thinking Government Care Political Talking Perspective Capacity Election Obvious Spending Tiny Presidential Candidates Fund Relative Fractions Presidential Candidate Political Election

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

Life Perspective Blessed Thanksgiving Spirit Of Life

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.”

Thinking Looks States Shows Lines Common Perspective Activity Regard Common Sense Firm Maps Epidemics Dividing Influenza

Author:Julie Gerberding

“The government is already involved from an entertainment standpoint. I mean, they regulate a large part of our entertainment. What we're trying to do as an industry is be proactive and drive it much more positively, much more effectively, than the government can, and that's what the ESA is all about[....]We think we're doing a pretty effective job, and certainly from an Nintendo perspective, we think the ESA is the way to go.”

Thinking Way Trying Mean Government Jobs Perspective Industry Involved Entertainment Positively Standpoint Proactive Nintendo

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation.”

“The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.”

People Thinking Way Bigs Subjects Perspective Discovery Manage Conventional Way Of Thinking New Perspective Conventional Ways

Author:Anthony James Leggett

“See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.”

World Way Humans Wells Looks Forever Planets Perspective Evidence Blue Green Profit Borders Altered Orbit

Author:Jack McDevitt

“The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.”

Way Money Perspective Best Way

Book:How to make money in Wall Street

Source: How to make money in Wall Street

“If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.”

“The list of American grievances is long: Pakistan developed nuclear weapons while promising the United States that it would not; the United States helped arm and train Mujahideen against the Soviets during the 1980s, but Pakistan chose to keep these militants well armed and sufficiently funded even after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989; and, from the American perspective, Pakistan's crackdown on terrorist groups, particularly after 9/11, has been halfhearted at best.”

“Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!”

“The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.”

Book Bits Perspective Premises Ideological

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.”

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.”

“Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With fresh data and perspectives, Tepper makes a compelling case that cultural conflicts are largely homegrown, tied to each community's shifting demographics and values. It's an eye-opening work.”

Art Eye Values Social Community Cases Perspective Offers Conflict Insight Opening Data Uncertainty Protest Tied Compelling Social Change Shifting Demographics Invaluable Eye Opening Homegrown

Author:Ken Paulson

“The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.”

Long Important Reason Running Faces Issues Perspective Research Bases Long Runs Day To Day

Author:Ben Bernanke

“While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.”

Space Environment Perspective Devices Constructs Handy Detrimental Sketching

Author:Paul Laseau

“From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.”

Age Special Perspective Eastern Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.”

Feels Kind Matter Whole Sides Loss Space Perspective Blank Nothing Matters Blank Space Devastating Loss

Author:Andrew Shue

“From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.”

Knows Perspective Buddhism Assuming Buddhist Etiquette

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.”

People Way Trying Force Roles Economy Figures Particular Perspective Keys Comfort Skills Zone Ingredients Comfort Zone

Author:Steve Case

“Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.”

“In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.”

Looks Bits Talking Comedy Wonderful Honesty Perspective Degrees Jokes Distance Hopefully Exception Devices

Author:Alexander Payne

“I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.”

Writing Important Different Whole Able Perspective Add Something New Not Interested Different Perspective Whole Picture

Author:Nick Cave

“I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.”

Thinking Shows Perspective Research Medical Advancing Medical Research Antibodies

Author:John Cleese

“The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.”

Years Given Half Four Planets Perspective Fit Billions Observation Arrivals Newcomers

Author:Sylvia Earle

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