Perspective Quotes · Page 2

The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or…

— Erving Goffman

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

— Davis Bunn

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the…

— Niall Ferguson

In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just…

— Thomas Keating

All eyes are on Haaland and Sancho but Kai Havertz is the one from a German perspective. He is special and he…

— Owen Hargreaves

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred…

— Carl Sagan

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Who flies high, easily chooses his target.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if…

— Tadashi Yanai

“The camera lets me see things in a different way. It's like I finally have perspective. I can't always say stuff right…

— Eileen Cook

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline…

— Junot Diaz

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

— Douglas Adams

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all…

— Ti West

I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting…

— Keith Ellison

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

— Al Neuharth

“One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".”

— Andrew Roberts

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque…

— George Eliot

I don't go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are…

— Karan Patel

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

— Dan Brown

“Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.”

— Jessica Fechtor

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit…

— Meg Ryan

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

— Morihei Ueshiba

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for…

— William Ralph Inge