Top 1200 Historical Perspective Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
I think a sense of history and perspective for our young people today is essential.
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.
Whether that's in communications or marketing or strategy, you need people to come in with a fresh perspective.
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.
Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.
Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.
There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.
I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.
This is unproven technology, and if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't interact with tokens - from an investor and security perspective.
It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
The black man's struggle in this country, I understood that. But I didn't really understand the historical message behind the 'Paris' song until later in my life.
Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?
I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.
Equality of outcome is a discredited concept, failing on both logical and historical grounds, as anyone knows who has studied the misery of the 20th century.
Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
We have this real problem as human beings to put people on pedestals - with celebrities, with historical figures - and we forget they're humans just like us.
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.
Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.
I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'
Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
People get into stand-up comedy by and large because they're smart and they have a perspective.
I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.
There's a billion and a half Muslim experiences. All I can give you is my one weird, self-examining perspective.
I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical person I'd have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with.
Having been on the other side of the camera gives me such perspective on what I'm doing.
That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.
There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.
Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.
When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.
Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.
Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.
The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.
If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.
It's important for me that anything I lend my stamp to must have a perspective that is uniquely mine.
One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.
