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“Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.”

Mind Moments Humor Success Attention Focus Failure Perspective Balance Luck Labels Present Moment Constructs Good Luck Success And Failure Good Humor

Author:Tom Bergeron

“Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest.”

People Way Humans Together Perspective Moon Drawing Ritual Shade Advent

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.”

World Way Looks Views This World Perspective Depends Point Of View

Book:Lavender and Old Lace

Source: Lavender and Old Lace

“I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.”

People World Want Universe Realizing Wonderful Honest This World Perspective Uplifting Cosmic

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.”

“Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.”

Perspective Mountain

Book:The Daughter of Time

Source: The Daughter of Time

“Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective”

Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.”

Needs Littles Order Language Perspective Bags Composition Grammar Geometry Skeletons Expressive Geometric Layout

Author:Augusto De Luca

“Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.”

Needs Said Done Roles Perspective Unique Unique Perspective

Book:Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.”

World Humans Helping Feelings Poetry Language Lines Situation Imagine Perspective Honor News Tools Direct Metaphor Details Meaningful Genuine Poetry Is Imagery Headlines

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.”

Years War Loss Perspective Mass Misery Alternatives Casualties

Author:Boris Trajkovski

“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

Wells Doe Made Said Two Reality Language Common Written Objects Poet Perspective Reader Honor Demand Unique Significant Two Things Validity Poetry By Famous Poets Unique Perspective

Author:W. H. Auden

“Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice.”

Practice Perspective Shapes Priorities

Author:Kenneth Boa

“What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.”

World Kind Stills Two Real Spirituality Sides Ability Perspective Morality Opposites Arguing Investigation Equations Elimination Two Opposites

Author:Eve Ensler

“I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.”

World Different Shows Fashion Perspective Hollywood Traveled Different Perspective Fashion Show Great Fashion

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.”

Real Guy Perspective Real Life Bad Guys

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.”

“Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.”

Years Lasts Life Is Chance Perspective News Survival Flow Cancer Last Year Coins Bad Day October Bad News Toss Ebb And Flow Testicular Cancer

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.”

World Kind Suffering Belief Perspective Fit Myopia

Book:Kin Dread

Source: Kin Dread

“Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.”

Sometimes Seems Given Existence Failing Perspective Activity Accounts Finals Traditional Transcendence Transcendent Viewpoints Transcendental Transcending

Author:Raymond Geuss

“So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!”

Age Past Easy Difficult Perspective Errors Acknowledge

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.”

Giving Feels Joy Perspective Lucky Fatherhood Perspective On Things

Author:David Harewood

“I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft: not embarrassing, very cool.”

People Thinking World Different Hair Perspective Embarrassing Really Cool Different Perspective Very Cool World Of Warcraft

Author:Aubrey Plaza

“The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.”

World Kids Dark Powerful Love You Perspective Vivid Poignant Dark Things

Author:James Mercer

“You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.”

Writing Trying Littles Different Turns Fiction Perspective Science Fiction Different Perspective

Author:Kim Stanley

“Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that Ive had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.”

Thinking Way Artist Stuff Loss Levels Gone Taught Perspective Gratitude Losing Bother Salt Grain Great Art Great Artist Grain Of Salt

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.”

Suffering Perspective Cease

Author:Donald Miller

“Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.”

Perspective Circumstances Function

Author:Lindsay Wagner

“The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.”

Modern Perspective Revelations Theologian Toolbox

Author:Joseph Silk

“Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.”

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.”

Thinking Persons Bigs Jobs Perspective Benefits Towns Small Town Think Big

Author:Unita Blackwell

“Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.”

Able Humanity Easy Differences Common Accepting Perspective Ignorant Isolation Common Humanity Shared Experiences

Author:Linda Simon

“Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV and it just changed my whole perspective of driving and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.”

Whole Car Changed Perspective Driving One Time Freeways Suvs Driving On

Author:Lauren Lee Smith

“Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.”

Looks Seems Might Our Lives Sky Perspective Sight Caught Speculation Indulge Formation Geese Indulge In Grove

Book:Open City

Source: Open City

“I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.”

Believe Humor Hands Political Asks Chance Interesting Havens Perspective Fine Labor Department Questioning Secretary Political Humor Chavez

Author:George W. Bush

“Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.”

Way Different Film Given Perspective Approach Theater Different Perspective

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.”

Thinking Looks Lasts Form Joy Turns Opportunity Process Creativity Generations Design Perspective Projects Discovery Experiments Outcomes Fleeting Tangible Prototype Heirlooms

Author:Tim Brown

“But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.”

Way Feels Facts Moving Lying Honest Events Perspective Mere Brands Novelists

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the converse is equally true...From this perspective, every spiritual exercise is a dialogue, insofar as it is an exercise of authentic presence, to oneself and to others.”

Spiritual Perspective Exercise Capable Oneself Genuine Dialogue Encounters Converses

Author:Pierre Hadot

“Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.”

Age Teach Technology Perspective Devices Passivity

Author:Julia Cameron

“People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”

People Loses Dangerous Perspective Edgy

Book:Women

Source: Women

“Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.”

Mean Eye Names Lines Fronts Objects Perspective Distance Starting Edges Surface Rational Consideration Demonstration Pyramids Transmit

Book:The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.””

“Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.”

Growing Perspective Deserve Population Minorities Latina

Author:Linda Sanchez

“I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.”

Perspective Grass Soil Vegetables Cows Grazing

Author:Dan Barber

“There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.”

Doe Jesus Perspective Kings Tyranny Luther Greatest Gifts Relativity Judas

Author:Chris Crutcher

“It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds”

Ifs Earth Lost Views Perspective Clouds Heavy Height Looking Back Towers Giddy Great Heights

Book:The Emigrants

Source: The Emigrants

“From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.”

Knows Needs Giving Children Young Order Childhood Special Masters Perspective Periods Adults Breathing Protected Immaturity

Author:Alison Gopnik

“The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.”

Different Perspective Good Things Theme Subjective

Author:Queen Latifah

“Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.”

Want Done Artist Technology Perspective Resources Painter Composer New Perspective Redos

Author:George Lucas

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