Perspective Quotes
When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.
It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.
It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
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.
Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.
Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.
An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.
My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.
A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.
My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.
Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.
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.
Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.
In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.