Perspective Quotes

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly.

That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

That is all the perspective you need!

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

We need to take a whole UK perspective on this [Brexit]. The Mayor of London has got a role in those kinds of discussions.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers us that we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

From my perspective, the state has to assume responsibility for the integrity of international communications.

WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one.

Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.

The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

If [after one role] you believe that you've mastered acting and you don't have to study the craft or get a deeper perspective, then you're not going to succeed.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I'm blessed that our parents gave us that.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

Half of bravery is perspective.

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.