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“Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.”

Suffering Loses Perspective Anxiety Scales

Book:There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

“When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.”

People War Force Nations Social Loses Violence Perspective Gun Conscience Hatred Reactions Obsessed Bitterness Insensitive

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective”

Helping Loses Perspective Determined Those We Love

Book:Vampirates: Blood Captain

Source: Vampirates: Blood Captain

“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.”

Trying School Form Artist Loses Study Perspective Tradition Ancient Drawing Chinese Conventions Decay Brushes Texture Fruition

Author:John French Sloan

“You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.”

Thinking Knows Feels Years Wells Kind Children Enough Age Girl Realizing Loses Perspective Yeah Actresses Crops

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.”

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“That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.”

Years Persons Character Lasts Loses Decision Break Four Serious Perspective Disaster Absurd Barack Abandon Insightful Four Years Admirable Composure

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

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

People Loses Dangerous Perspective Edgy

Book:Women

Source: Women

“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

“No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Loses Human Beings Share Theory Perspective Behavior Argument Sight Silly Enormous Twelve Emerging Freeze Suitable Nineteen Bakers Silliness Eclairs

Author:Anna Quindlen

“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.”

“With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.”

Easy Loses Levels Perspective Ego Musical

Author:Joe Walsh

“It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.”

Years Easy Term Loses Advice Perspective Drug Waste Musician Alcohol Wasting Time Easy To Get

Author:Joe Walsh

“I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.”

Ifs Trying Looks Done Loses My Own Audience Perspective Compare Judgement

Author:Avicii

“Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.”

Way Wells Mean Play Home Might Happens Kids Faces Games Loses Seeing Perspective News Daughter Mood My Daughter Day To Day Bad Day Bad News Going Home Day Life Life Happens

Author:Stephen Curry

“Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.”

Ifs Enough Action Loses Events Perspective Scene Add Photograph Good Enough Adopted Retrospect

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.”

Trying Bigs Spirit Loses Loss Mistake Too Much Humility Perspective Needed Letting Go Perfection Adversity Profit Focused Keep Trying Big Picture Necessary Change

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.”

“I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.”

Thinking Want Home Today Able Loses Simple Perspective Grew Grew Up Backgrounds Honored

Author:Jimmie Johnson

“The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"”

Thinking Loses Nice Perspective Directors Anxiety Pressure Productions Creator Fantastic Filmmaker Helpful

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.”

Ifs Giving May Spiritual Spirit Humanity Interest Loses Perspective Holy Connections Institutions Intention Sake Holy Spirit Serving Serving God Marrying Spiritual Connection

Author:A. R. Rahman

“By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.”

States Film Loses Perspective Filmmaker Sundance

Author:James Ponsoldt

“If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.”

Ifs Facts Easy Loses Impossible Events Perspective Fairs Conviction Witness Observers Participants Interpreter

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.”

Giving Stills House Loses Rooms Watches Perspective Directors Office Sitting Exciting Notes Very Good Editors

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.”

People Thinking Wells Looks Country Reality Film Loses Numbers Saws Particular Perspective Died Yesterday Other Countries Viewers Bombing

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Happens Care Loses Perspective No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Ladyhawke

“Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.”

Loses Perspective Where You Are

Author:Rob Halford

“One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.”

Lost Loses Perspective Keel

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to raise a child has passed - which is, on average, about 4 years.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”

Success Energy Loses Perspective Succeed Bigger Dance Positivity Ballet Losing Yourself Drive And Success Energy Levels Something Bigger Than Yourself

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.”

Book Reading Literature Lost Loses Secret Perspective Tables Bounds Titles Librarian Table Of Contents

Author:Robert Musil

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”

Needs Order Loses Perspective Sight Priorities

Book:Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.”

Ifs Thinking Use Reality Loses Forget Perspective Pages Messiah Use It Or Lose It

Author:Richard Bach

“Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.”

Ifs Life Needs Feels Mind Persons Remember Loses Loss Focus Perspective Increase Grateful Forgotten Abundance Need You Concentrating Noticer

Author:Andy Andrews

“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”

Ifs World Giving Doe I Can Stars Loses Acting Rich Perspective Give Me Silly Statements Who I Am Frivolous Bunnies Slippers Being Silly

Author:Dean Koontz

“Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time”

“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”

People World Loses Dangerous Perspective Glad Nervous Sense Of Humor Killers Odds Bores Psychotic Edgy

Book:Women

Source: Women

“Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.”

Loses Hurt Forget Perspective Lessons Forgiving

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.”

Loses Steps Perspective

Book:Bone Man's Daughters

Source: Bone Man's Daughters

“In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.”

Source: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame

“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.”

Real Given Loses Ability Love Is Secret Greater Perspective Protect Chaos Real Love Chaotic Protect Yourself

Book:White Apples

Source: White Apples

“I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.”

Firsts Doe Stills Bigs Friendship Loses Source Perspective Comfort My Friends Believer Isolated First Lady Source Of Strength Strength And Comfort

Author:Nancy Reagan

“What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.”

Loses Perspective Essence

Author:Janis Joplin