“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.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanPersonsI CanReasonWholeIndividualSocialWaitingSeeingInformationParticularPerspectiveCircumstancesOrdinaryAdvantagePatientLazyIntercourseTherapistsTotalityWhole PersonConcluding Author:Alan Loy McGinnis
“Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.” PeopleIdeasCharacterStoriesIndividualTvsPerspectiveSeriesIntentionCaughtGood IdeasCaught UpTv SeriesIndividual LifeBest IntentionsStory People Author:Anton Corbijn
“The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.” GivingBelieveBigsRealityAbleIndividualI BelievePerspectiveBig Picture Author:Mick Ebeling
“As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother neversays "I got lost," but accusingly says "You lost me!" It is a rare mother who agrees that she lost him! she expects her child to stay with her; in her experience it is the child who has lost track of the mother, while in the child's experience it is the mother who has lost track of him. Each view is entirely correct from the perspective of the individual who holds it .” FeelsChildrenMotherIndividualLostViewsPerspectiveAgreeTrackWanderScreamAnnaAisleToddlerLost Me Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice your most sacred beliefs to government the instant you start a business. You have the protection of the First Amendment as an individual, you see – but the instant you start a business, you lose those protections.” FirstsGovernmentReligionPoliticsIndividualBeliefEnergyPresidentLosesWorkSacrificePolicyHealthPerspectiveConflictEthicsCapitalismSacredHuman RightsProtectionIdeologyInstantAlliesRegimesAmendmentsConsumerismFirst Amendment Author:Bobby Jindal
“Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.” NeedsShouldHelpingIndividualPerspectivePerceptionForgottenDeterminedSensitivity Author:Nathan Goldstein
“The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were people with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Native American and humanist perspectives, as well as individuals from advocacy groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Center for Law and Justice.” PeopleWellsChristianLawIndividualReligiousJusticeLibertyLeaderGroupsPerspectiveTablesUnionsConvictionNativeHumanistBroadsHinduismNative AmericanSpectrumRepresentingCivil LibertiesAdvocacyRecommendationsLaw And Justice Author:Charles Haynes
“We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.” WorldFeelsIndividualNationsSleepRevolutionPerspectiveEnvironmentalSustainability Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.” HumansYoungDesireIndividualSecretWonderfulPerspectiveMature Author:Clive James
“Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.” IfsWorldWayDifferentIndividualProductsPerspectiveInnovationInsightDifferent WaysAphorismExecutionInquiryLensesInnovativeBrillianceInnovators Author:Gary Hamel
“What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.” PeopleHas BeensDifferentAgeNamesIndividualWiseHeardChildhoodPerspectiveBearsInnocentOld AgeMaturityCollectivesDunces Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I have not found my perspective on my career change. What I have found is that my life in general has been more fulfilling. To be able to influence an individual's life and on who they become as a person is a very rewarding feeling.” PersonsHas BeensFeelingsAbleFoundIndividualCareersInfluencePerspectiveFulfillingCareer Change Author:Phil Mickelson
“I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.” YearsPersonsBookDifferentStoriesIndividualBloodPerspectiveHusbandFocusedMemoirVersionsDisagreeConventionalFooledConcentratingSelectiveDifferent Perspective Author:Walter Kirn
“Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in which profound struggles about identity and direction arise - struggles that Mann himself had not only reflected on but felt keenly. Visconti takes up this central focus of the novella, but he couples it with a more social perspective.” ThinkingKindAgeIndividualSocialFeltConsciousnessStruggleFocusIdentityPerspectiveCoupleProfoundArisePortraits Author:Philip Kitcher
“I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.” ThinkingYearsEndsAmericaCultureIndividualBlackVisionPerspectiveRacismBroadsUrbanOutrageYears Of LifeMilitancyDubois Author:Manning Marable
“It is the masculine dynamic that has caused our society to place money and corporate profit above human beings. It has allowed the earth to be viewed only as a commodity to be exploited. The feminine perspective sees things differently. She sees the earth and all its inhabitants as entities to be revered and cared for. She sees individual human beings as more important than the relentless advance of capitalism and competition. It is my hope, perhaps indirectly expressed in my work, that the divine feminine is reawakening.” ImportantEarthIndividualDivinePerspectiveCapitalismCompetitionFeminineCommodityMasculineRelentless Author:Mark Ryden
“Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often we find that this is overlooked because there is a common assumption the business executives have all the requisite cognitive skills they need when they come to work for the organization. The problem with that perspective is that it overlooks the fact that thinking skills can be learned and improved at any time during the course of a persons lifetime.” ThinkingProblemIndividualCommonAttentionPerspectiveLifetimeAssumptionOrganizational Author:Justin Menkes
“When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how close by are they? Understanding what we are reacting to can change the way we think about the problem. If, biologically, morality evolved to help us get along with individuals in our community, it makes sense that we have heartstrings that can be tugged - and that they are not going to be tugged very hard from far away. But does that make sense? From a more reflective moral perspective, that may just be a cognitive glitch.” ThinkingTryingHelpingProblemIndividualUnderstandingCommunityMoralPerspectiveMoralityObligationMake SenseFar Away Author:Joshua Greene
“Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your hands of it because you might not be from their background, or you might disagree with their personal perspective. So you discount it and go back into your corner instead of coming out and engaging with everything.” IndividualEasyPerspectiveDisagree Author:Cass McCombs
“As for my interest in diversity, I believe it is closely aligned with my work on the project, Giving Voice To Values. That is, there are often times when we may witness or personally experience situations where some individuals are not treated with the same respect or care as others, precisely due to some difference in their identities, their styles, their experiences, or their perspectives. Often it is difficult to speak up in such a situation, for ourselves or for others.” GivingBelieveCareValuesIndividualSpeakI BelieveDifficultInterestSituationStyleIdentityPerspectiveDiversityWitness Author:Mary C. Gentile
“From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.” WorldArtIndividualImaginationViewsPaintingPerspectiveSkillsIntellectNew WorldNurtureMusic And DanceSculpting Author:George W. Bush
“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.” LifeArtArtistIndividualAbilityStepsPerspectiveExcellenceIndividualityWinnerWorks Of ArtCanvasMasterpiece Author:Denis Waitley
“We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.” IndividualEnergyDifferencesPerspectiveUniqueSeparationStreams Author:Esther Hicks