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“The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.”

“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.”

“In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.”

Way Doe Art Light Color Perspective Perception New Ways Components Reductionism

Book:The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

Source: The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

“If you look at any type of situation, I look at the positive and try to spread my light and truth. I think it helps with my outlook on life and correlates to football. But I don't think it helps me run any faster, jump any higher, or catch the ball or anything like that. It just helps me with perspective.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Looks Helping Light Running Situation Football Perspective Type Higher Balls Spread Faster Help Me Outlook Outlook On Life

Author:Arian Foster

“I feel that instead of putting myself out in that light, I'd rather be on this side of the camera just to make sure that the movie, from my perspective as far as police procedures, is done properly. I got my daughters in it, that's good enough for me. Scott's got a way of talking me into things, and I told him I don't like the way he can talk me into stuff.”

Way Feels Done Enough Light Stuff Sides Talking Perspective Daughter Police Cameras My Daughter Good Enough Procedures Way Of Talking

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.”

Sometimes Light Care Moral Perspective Glory Evidence Aspect Clean West Finals Landscape Unexpected Depressing Assurance Misused

Author:Robert Adams

“I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.”

People Thinking Giving Different Stories Reality Light Artist Opportunity Share Inspire Perspective Shed Different Perspective Different Realities

Author:Goapele

“In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.”

Light Worry Perspective Solitude Eternity Distance Traps Psychics

Author:Dallas Willard

“Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you had considered before. A way of thinking that would never have occurred to you with out exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.When you look in to some ones eyes you see them in that other light and for just a second they see you in the same way.”

Thinking World Way Looks Light Eye Deals Magic Perspective Gains Exposure Wizards Way Of Thinking

Author:Jim Butcher

“The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.”

Source: Self Portrait Che Guevara

“Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.”

Sometimes Light Perspective Tiny Familiar

Book:The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition

Source: The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition

“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.”

Source: Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation

“Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.”

Sometimes Light Perspective

Author:Dan Brown

“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”

Ifs Writing Doe Light Law Born Music Knowing Painting Perspective Fine Jazz Suits Shade Creative Writing Art Music Rearranging

Author:Truman Capote

“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.”

May Light Beautiful Form Attitude Beauty Saws Design Objects Perspective Intelligence Ugly Shade Being Beautiful Ugly Things

Author:John Constable

“If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light.”

Ifs Knows Light Dark Walks Perspective Wrestling Dark Days

Author:Earl Campbell