If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I hope that I have gained some wisdom, but I don't know. I have kids, and that certainly puts things into perspective.… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But what is chance ? What is genius ? The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and… — David Shapiro Copy Share Image
There are no hard feelings with me and Alabama. A lot of people had a negative perception on me because I was… — Alvin Kamara Copy Share Image
“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to… — Levi Grossman Copy Share Image
I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme:… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that "appreciates" grows in value. With… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
“Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so--it's an innate urge with them, something that they… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
“To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of intuition is to… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Look, Olivia, I care about you. Can’t you see that? Can’t you feel it? I might not have always done the right… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think… — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The reality of everyday life further presents itself to me as an intersubjective world, a world that I share with others. This… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Folks, don't lose perspective. Michelle Obama husband has been in office 7-1/2 years. This country is in the middle of a massive… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have changed the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image