Perspective Quotes · Page 63

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

— Greg Laurie

Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.

— George W. Bush

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

— Vernor Vinge

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

— Thomas Metzinger

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

— Russel Honore

I think a sense of history and perspective for our young people today is essential.

— Vera Lynn

Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.

— Jean Wilson

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

— Calvin Klein

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In…

— Jean Rostand

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on…

— Eric Dane

“Trying to change situations or conditions solely with action in the world would be like trying to fix an unwanted image in…

— Larry Gottlieb

We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less.…

— Peter Greenaway

In life if you're given an opportunity to share a perspective on life, or society or humanity, it would be churlish not…

— Rebecca Root

What we need is a slow time movement to gain control over time and an overhaul of work statistics to give a…

— Guy Standing

I intend to apply the perspective of astrobiology, which is a deep-time way of looking at life on Earth, towards the question…

— David Grinspoon

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to…

— Todd Rundgren

“Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have…

— Emma Donoghue

Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,…

— Thomas Hampson

Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to…

— Joseph Campbell

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super…

— Henry Selick

“It may be easy to feel detached from happenings not close to us. We are comparatively objective about events and incidents that…

— Krishna Murthy Annigeri Vasudeva Rao

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it…

— John Sununu

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges…

— Federico Fellini

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into…

— Italo Calvino

“Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.”

— Ian McNulty

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think the female gaze is important because we cannot have just one perspective on anything.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Everyone should have a kid. They really put things in perspective. I know a guy can get you one cheap.”

— Anthony Chapman

Resist the urge to get into an argument. Remember, you dont have to agree, just try to understand the other persons perspective.

— Kemmy Nola

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

— Colm Meaney

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”

— Angela N. Blount

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but…

— Javier Marías

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

— Anonymous

“Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?”

— Shannon L. Alder

“I keep my work in perspective. I place my happiness, health, relationships, and joy above all else.”

— Anonymous

“put problems into perspective—they give you a means for standing back and getting a better view of a situation”

— Jeanne Segal

“Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.”

— Margaret Atwood

I think the city of Atlanta has a lot of stories from the woman's perspective.

— Stephen Glover

“That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg