“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.” WritingTryingSelfWantedSchoolSongVoicePerspectiveSingingHigh SchoolIntentionPopsTonePunkEmulateDichotomy Author:Laura Benanti
“I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.” ThinkingTryingMindLittlesRocksPerspectiveRock And Roll Author:Matt Berninger
“From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.” WantTryingImportantAsksEasyCompanyClearFiveFocusMinutesPerspectiveKeysBusyProductivityObjectivesDesksEmailFive MinutesDeckClearingPrioritization Author:Ivanka Trump
“I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.” TryingPerspectiveMentality Author:Pusha T
“I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.” MenWantTryingMindLooksViolenceHe ManPerspectiveHustle Author:Pusha T
“I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership with Trulia because it's centered around technology and the various social engagements it lends itself to. This is real estate going forward with a mobile and social application. It fits my profile and perspective.” TryingLongRealSocialTechnologyPerspectiveFitLong TimeEdgesVariousExcitedApplicationEngagementPartnershipEstatesMobileProfile Author:MC Hammer
“I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love, watching a family member or a friend going through [something], and trying to write about it from a different perspective.” WritingTryingDifferentFallPerspectiveMembersFalling In LoveInspiredHeartacheDifferent ThingsFamily MembersDifferent Perspective Author:Colbie Caillat
“I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.” TryingHandsPainEmotionalPerspectiveCome UpHelpfulEmotional Pain Author:Richard Brancatisano
“I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.” WritingTryingLittlesHelpingSeemsRememberTermMemoriesPerspectiveDiscoveryLet MeNotesPatternsPhonesPeacefulHelp MeCompassionateHabitualLet Me Down Author:Richard Brancatisano
“Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective.” WorldTryingPhilosophyPracticeParticularPerspectiveBuddhismDaily LifeMeditating Author:Joan Osborne
“If I've been hurt, I'm not one of those people who can hide it or bury it deep within. I give myself time to work through it, cry, journal, pray, call my best friends. Then I try to take a step back and get perspective. I try to remind myself of all the positive things in my life and do my best to let it go.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingHurtStepsCryPerspectivePrayingJournalMy Best FriendLet It GoDeep WithinPositive ThingsBeen HurtI've Been Hurt Author:Kelly Stables
“If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.” IfsNeedsTryingBodyAgeChoicesReadingPerspectiveActivityConsciousYogaGlassesYour BodyStatementsFinding YourselfHittingReading Glasses Author:Deepak Chopra
“Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna say anything yet because I don't know and it's too early] is a place in the weird town that I'm trying to create and its Cry Baby's perspective throughout this album. You're not learning about her, you're learning about the place that she's in and her perspective. Down the line for sure I will think of other characters in this world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingCharacterNextLinesCryThis WorldPerspectiveBabyTownsAlbumsTitlesSay AnythingCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.” FeelsTryingWellsDifferentFeelingsMy OwnCareersGroupsPerspectiveDifferent ThingsPerformersCompetitivenessWell RoundedGroup Of Friends Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.” TryingMatterWholeWantedPerspectivePeriodsReviewsTransition Author:Van Morrison
“I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.” PeopleTryingMy OwnPerspective Author:Misty Copeland
“Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to go for hikes that took me there. But my perspective was most often down at ground level, trying to see quite tiny exquisite flowers.” WritingTryingLevelsClassHappenedTeachingFlowerPerspectiveUniversityTinyExquisiteColoradoAlpine Author:Martha Ronk
“The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on projects for the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and when he got the idea for an accordion-style book, he called and asked if I could write the story for it. I told him that I would love to try! And I knew it had to be a love story, because that's the sort of story you really want to hear from both perspectives. I mean, imagine if Pride and Prejudice were told from Darcy's perspective as well as Elizabeth's. It would be quite a different story!” IfsWantWritingTryingWellsMeanArtBookIdeasDifferentStoriesWould BeTogetherImagineWonderfulStylePerspectivePrideProjectsPrejudiceFoundationLove StoryIf I CouldEditorsFormatDarcyAccordions Author:Theodora Goss
“I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.” PeopleTryingLooksLittlesDifferentMovingBitsPerspectiveLittle BitBoundariesNeedlesDifferent Perspective Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.” PeopleWorldTryingHas BeensRoomsDealsFiguresPerspectiveKitchenBedroomDay To DayLiving RoomGarageHow To Love Author:Max Lucado
“I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.” TryingCreativePerspectiveApproach Author:Jon Spaihts
“I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.” TryingDifferentPerspectiveDifferent PeoplesAlways Trying Author:Reggie Watts
“In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.” WayNeedsTryingSaidBookEndsTodayOrderAudiencePerspectiveTraditionArguingDoctrineSavingScholarlyCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.” KnowsTryingSeemsPleasurePerspectiveArgumentArguingNovelistsOnlineGrumpy Author:Zadie Smith
“If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.” PeopleIfsWantTryingMindShowsInterestingWatchesPerspectiveProgramComplexesIdeologyJournalismUrgentPrisms Author:Jon Stewart
“I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.” ThinkingWorldTryingDifferentHumanityUnderstandingCommonFashionTaughtPerspectiveBenefitsApproachEmpathyEndeavorDividesWorld HistoryCommon Humanity Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng
“My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express something that is more a collective expression of crisis.” TryingSubjectsExpressionPerspectiveCrisisDrivenCollectives Author:Shirin Neshat
“Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.” ThinkingNeedsTryingWellsMeanHas BeensImportantAttitudeChristianityGonePerspectiveGoes OnCitizensTraditionRootsToleranceDespiteFeaturesGlobal Citizen Author:Ninian Smart
“Some of songs are autobiographical and some of it is more telling a story from someone else's perspective. It's healthy for me to do that because, oftentimes, it can become too narcissistic if I'm trying to express myself all of the time. My problems are what I'm going through and sometimes it's nice to take a step back and feel what someone else is going through and that can help.” TryingSometimesHelpingProblemSongNicePerspectiveHealthyNarcissistic Author:Jonathan Jackson
“I never expected Star Wars to all of a sudden become like The Matrix and change perspective on things. I respected it trying to stay close to the style of what George Lucas was originally doing. I don't understand how people can hate them. I think even the most cynical person can find something that reminds them of the Star Wars they loved. They're not void of that. Maybe there are holes, but it's like your family: You accept people's shortcomings, and you still love them.” PeopleThinkingTryingWarHateAcceptingStyleLike YouPerspectiveOur FamilyCynicalShortcomings Author:Kyle Newman
“In fact, our need to feel like big shots keeps us wedded to inadequate perspectives on the world, keeps us from exploring and dealing with what doesn't fit into those perspectives. We should be trying to formulate a bigger, richer perspective to accommodate what doesn't fit, but no matter how beautiful and true that new perspective looks to us, we should always be prepared to acknowledge that it doesn't accommodate something we haven't yet confronted.” WorldTryingBeautifulPerspectiveFitAcknowledgeExploringBe PreparedInadequate Author:David Wong
“My own view - and I'm very open to hearing other perspectives - is that this movement-building needs to begin at home, in local communities. It isn't about trying to launch a brand new national party overnight. It's about people in communities coming together across lines of difference, bringing with them their movements, their families, and coming together and saying, "How can we together build a movement of movements here at home? What would that look like? What do we want to do right here in our communities?"” PeopleTryingHomeTogetherCommunityPartyPerspective Author:Michelle Alexander
“I try and get on my yoga mat at least three times a week, and if I don't, things start to unravel. I admire routine and ritual, but I am not inherently good at keeping a schedule. I eat at different times every day, I wake up at different times, I change my mind about things I was so sure of the day before. Perhaps I am too passionate, too willing to bend the rules in the name of fun, or to pass the time, or who knows what? Being on stage is truly what puts it all into perspective, and after I get on stage, I take a moment to reflect, and I am set for another 24 hours.” TryingMindDifferentMomentsFunHoursWeekPerspectiveYogaWake UpPassionateAdmireRitual Author:Sameer Gadhia
“In Cannes, I try to find somebody's apartment that I can cook at. I always go shopping in the marche and try to make a meal and set up a whole space outside the business. I'll try to go to at least two or three movies that I know there's no way in hell I'll be involved with from a business perspective. You have to indulge your cinephilic needs.” TryingHellPerspectiveApartmentIndulge Author:James Schamus
“As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.” TryingRunningPoliticalArtistGoalChallengesRiskAchievePerspectiveCapitalismObviousCompromiseSettlingActivistNot InterestedRhetoricCritiqueAccusationElitism Author:Josephine Meckseper
“I'm not sure that all books aren't that way. I think that might apply to any book I was writing. The book was kind of the product of this enormous infatuation I had, not only with the office and office politics, but with perspective, and trying to tell a story from as wide a range of perspectives as you possibly can. I tried to capture it all with the first-person plural, but once I settled on that, I used it to tell the story from as many angles as I could. I guess, to put it romantically, it was about a love affair with the craft of perspective.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindBookPerspectiveOfficeAffairNot SureInfatuationLove Affair Author:Joshua Ferris
“I don't mind being labeled as a political songwriter. I've chosen to do that. What really annoys me is being dismissed as a political songwriter. That really pains me, because life isn't all about love; it's not all about politics, either. It's a beautiful mixture of events that absolutely baffle you, and you think, "Why can't I do something about that?", whether those events are in your bedroom, or out there in the wide world. In our daily lives we engage with them at different times, and I'm trying to write about the whole human experience, or my perspective on it anyway.” ThinkingWorldWritingTryingMindDifferentPainBeautifulPoliticalPerspectiveChosenDaily LifeAnnoyingBedroomHuman Experience Author:Billy Bragg
“That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative, empathetic effort to see the world the way someone whose experiences remote from yours might see it. Not every writer works that way; some writers make a wonderful career out of writing books that adhere very closely to how they view the world. The further I go with this, the more interested I get in trying to imagine my way into other perspectives that at first seem foreign to me.” WorldWritingTryingBookEffortImagineWonderfulPerspectiveMy WayImaginativeWriting A BookReally LongEmpathetic Author:Jonathan Dee
“The more and more I step back and look at myself from my own personal perspective - which is what I try to do, to get outside of myself and look at it - there aren't too many things that I don't think I am. I like to party 'n' bullshit, entertain, be the center of attention, and pour champagne on naked girls. I like to do that too.” ThinkingTryingGirlPartyAttentionPerspectiveBullshit Author:Keith Stanfield
“I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her physical appearance. After creating them, part of my job is to inhabit them and try to see their world from their perspective.” WorldTryingCharacterCareImaginePerspectiveAppearanceI CarePhysical Appearance Author:Jason Lutes
“You have the management team, coaching staff, film staff, analytics team, training staff and playing team, and you're trying to manage all that and it's overwhelming. And then you have the media responsibilities. I don't know that I help at all, but I would think my value would be to help provide more of a clear-headed view from the outside. It's not like I have huge opinions, but I do have my point of view and perspective.” ThinkingTryingHelpingFilmValuesResponsibilityOpinionTeamPerspectiveTrainingManagementPoint Of ViewManageCoachingOverwhelming Author:Steve Nash
“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
“I think that's true of real life - we don't ever know anyone completely. Secrets are very important to creating a narrative work that's believable. The characters come into that world with secrets, as happens to all of us. As honest as we try to be in our relationships, we can never completely know someone. From a narrative perspective it's very important and pleasing - you want to have those secrets there. The secret is an essential part of the creation of the novel.” ThinkingWorldTryingImportantRealCharacterSecretNovelHonestCreationPerspectiveReal LifeOur Relationship Author:Jaume Cabre
“When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in a lot of pain... I saw their pain from a different perspective and realized that I can't just sing my way out of all this suffering. I have to try to understand human nature and myself and the nature of suffering and a lot of these other issues on a deeper level.” TryingDifferentDreamPainSufferingHuman NaturePerspectiveMy WayDifferent Perspective Author:Jeff Mangum
“I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music. If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away. There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file.” WorldTryingDifferentHoursJudgingPerspectiveSkinsSubconsciousDifferent PerspectivePuke Author:Arca
“I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.” WritingTryingBookSongDarkPerspectiveGenderShort StoryThrift Author:Bradford Cox
“I always come from a female perspective and a strong music base, trying to keep a positive slant on things. It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down, and I keep that message throughout. I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.” WritingTryingHeartImportantSongStrongBrokenPerspectiveFemaleHeart Broke Author:Nikka Costa
“I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.” TryingToo MuchPerspectiveDrinkDrinkingAlcoholDrunkBitesDrinking AlcoholFunny DrinkingBeer DrinkingGreat DrinkingAlcohol DrinkingDrinking FunnyGreat AlcoholGetting DrunkCocktail DrinksDrinking Too MuchAlcoholism FunnyShort DrinkingDrinking Party Author:Bette Midler
“I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.” IfsTryingStoriesLiteratureFictionTeachTeachingPerspectiveRealizationEndeavorCarolsJoyce Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.” TryingLooksDoneFocusPerspectiveNegativeGreat Things Author:Joel Osteen