Best perspective & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.”

“I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.”

Ifs Giving Artist Song Worry Records Wise Produce Mines Perspective Easier Starting Productions Listeners New Perspective

Author:Greg Laswell

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.”

Ifs Years Mean Stills Shows Numbers Perspective Consistently

Author:Malcolm-Jamal Warner

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

Ifs Trying Heart Kind May Different Soul Faces Artist Example Painting Masters Perspective Hundred Claims All Kinds Painter Working It Display Masterpiece Heart And Soul Different Perspective

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.”

Ifs Looks Different Perspective Eternity This Life Lenses Different Perspective

Author:James E. Faust

“From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.”

Ifs Security Perspective Connected

Author:Daniel J. Bernstein

“What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.”

Ifs Littles Happens Motivational Opportunity Ability Views Quality Our Lives Perspective Everyday Determined What If

Author:Hal Elrod

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.”

Ifs Bigs Seems Perspective Fine Ordinary Distance Size Impression Branches Oaks

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .”

Ifs Looks Reason Past Social Causes Results Race Behinds Class Psychology Perspective Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Accidents No Reason Upbringing Cosmology Sociological

Author:James Hillman

“When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.”

Ifs May Helping Effects Perspective Primitive Composition

Author:E. J. Hughes

“If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.”

Ifs Problem Motivational Faces Generations Perspective Approach Difficulty Temporary Future Generation Expediency

Book:How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Source: How to See Yourself As You Really Are

“If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.”

Ifs Women Perspective Disappointment Things Change

Author:Amy Dickinson

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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.”

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

“I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.”

“I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Character Spiritual Perspective Comfortable Having Hope

Author:Ryan Gosling

“From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.”

Ifs Knows Needs Problem Reality Perspective Fixed Signals Blackouts

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Doe Two Happens Deals Perspective Thousand Exciting Yesterday Thousand Years Manuscripts Persian

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.”

Ifs Looks States Helping Media Products Communication Like You Perspective Flow Currents Consumers Inevitable Related Digital Massive Astute

Author:Aaron Belz

“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

“The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.”

Ifs Spirit Energy Loses Situation Perspective Sake Resilience Wholeness Behalf Resourcefulness

Book:Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

Source: Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

“We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."”

People Ifs Thinking Looks War Earth Universe Planets Perspective Army Distance Convinced Cosmic Legion Specks Astrophysics Waging War

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Different Sometimes Wonderful Mines Perspective Bears Draws Worried Interpretation Wonderful Things

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.”

Ifs Matter Use Might Able Sides Results Views Perspective Fairs Prejudice Regard Disappointment Excuse Comforting Save Me

Author:Karl Kraus

“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”

Ifs Needs Wells Children Done Easy Parent Deals Perspective Depends Activity Structure Stable Supportive Child Rearing

Book:The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

“There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.”

Ifs Mind Perspective Photography Cyclops

Author:David Hockney

“If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.”

Ifs Thinking May States Asks Possibility Perspective Machines Soldier Critical Policemen Unethical

Author:Jose Padilha

“If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.”

Ifs Political Perspective Agree Over You Biographies Hoover J Edgar Hoover

Author:Clint Eastwood

“From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.”

Ifs Doe Film Acting Perspective Commitment Witness Outsiders Composing

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.”

Ifs Thinking Perspective Make Sense Nolan

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes, passions, loves, and hates, in her fears and her foibles, a mother will see herself at the same age. You are far enough away to have some perspective on what your daughter is going through. Still, you are close enough, if reminded, to feel it all again.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.”

Ifs Trying Mind Soul Together Too Much Perspective Tools Bliss Working Together Magnificent Limited Perspective

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.”

Ifs Art Study Color Perspective Genius Let Me Mathematics Refuse Drawing Laziness Aesthetics Anatomy

Author:Salvador Dali

“Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.”

Ifs Needs Humans Long Body Spirit Change Animal Tree Source Perspective Eternal Long Time Standing Connected Accepted Exception Living Things Long Time Ago Physical Body

Author:Esther Hicks

“The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.”

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