Perspective Quotes
1797 quotes by 1428 authors
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Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be…
— Eric Allin Cornell
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
— Oscar Wilde
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The…
— Oscar Wilde
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The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ...…
— Michael Dell
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Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was…
— Lena Dunham
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What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on…
— Jennifer Chiaverini
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A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.
— Nicholas G. Carr
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I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them,…
— John Lewis Gaddis
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If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers…
— Marion Nestle
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The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity…
— Jen Lancaster
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H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll…
— Howard Waldrop
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It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops…
— Justin Hall
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In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female…
— Theodore Beale
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If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give…
— Jesse James Garrett
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Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
— Mary Pipher
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We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of…
— Mary Pipher
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There are moments in life, and they happen so infrequently that they tend to really stand out, when life hands you the gift of perspective.…
— Cassia Leo
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The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.
— Frans Johansson
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No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the same thing, in…
— Jon Foreman
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