Top 1200 Perspective On Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

Whenever I was troubled and confused, I always depended upon my father to give me an objective perspective.

I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.

Satisfying as that 'Cabaret' role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective about what it is you do or don't do.

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.

From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter. I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way.

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

The most overwhelming factor was becoming a mother. The entire perspective of life changes overnight.

To read a piece of material from a period drama told from the woman's perspective is just so unique.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.

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.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

From the perspective of everything I went through to have played in four NFL games, it was one of the best experiences of my life.

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

I do like to always hear the male perspective because they have a very different view of what's hot to you.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

We need to redefine "smart" when talking about things Obama does, 'cause in my world he doesn't do smart things. He doesn't do intelligent things or wise things. He's doing destructive things.

I took a trip down to Mexico. It kind of changed my perspective on life a little bit.

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.

I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.

I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.

I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.

I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy.

Why is it so difficult to have films seeing the world from women's perspective like 'Thelma and Louise?'

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

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

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.