Perspective Quotes (953 Quotes)

Half of bravery is perspective.

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. Now he suddenly saw those badly daubed pictures in clear daylight and without a glass.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

From that perspective, Miller looks like a good chairman. But he was basically fired.

The county will continue the same precautionary measures we've done right from the start. From the county's perspective, we will continue to work with these contractors because we've had an excellent relationship with them.

His demeanor changed a lot ... and what happened off the court had a huge impact on that. It gave him a perspective of, 'Look, things are going to go wrong at times.' ... He's playing with much more of a calmness about him.

It was not a good time. You had to keep a sense of perspective, and that is what I will remember of that day, people lost their jobs, not that someone got it.

You probably want to subtract about two-tenths of a percent from first-quarter GDP growth. But that's looking like very old history, with the Fed having eased twice since the first quarter. From the market's perspective, you feel like you're in a different world already. The first quarter looks very distant, indeed.

The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Georgia. But we are not considering the CIS from a military perspective, and our main aim is to join NATO.

Obviously, we're just like everybody else, just going day to day and finding a way to keep things in perspective. It's a game. There have been a lot of lives lost in that area, a lot of homes. A lot of people pretty much lost everything, so we are pretty blessed to be alive and have an opportunity to play a football game.

Garry Kitchen and I played hugely competitive matches of Amazing Tennis. There is a great thing about that game from a tennis player's perspective.

The more time customers stay on the premises, the more likely they are to buy. From a business perspective, it's a solid idea.

The MPAA views this partnership with Internet2 as an important opportunity for collaboration as we seek to link new delivery models with content protection. The MPAA and its member companies have a wide range of expertise in both areas, and I believe we can add a positive, constructive perspective.

You sometimes lost track of what the long-term view of Arrowhead would look like. When you're in the middle of the forest chopping trees down, it's hard to get a perspective of what the whole forest looks like. It's succeeded beyond, certainly, my expectations.

Regardless of results or performance, the ability to interact and impact the young student-athletes involved in the Chicago SCORES program was a great opportunity for all of our student-athletes. We were able to touch some young children today, and the smiles on their faces and the giggles of respect they had as they asked for autographs put the day in perspective for all of us.

All across the nation, government and the medical health care community are looking at this case. From the open records perspective, the view is, and has been, that the Texas open records law requires disclosure in many cases.

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

We didn't know Al was leaving, but I wanted a contingency plan if he did leave us high and dry, which he did. But he didn't. He knew we had a goalie. Would he have still left Probably. But at least from our perspective, it wasn't like the whole team was depending on Al Montoya.

This year's honorees represent a new generation with passion, promise and a global perspective. We're pleased to be able to salute the good work and commitment of these outstanding students, all of whom are destined to make a difference.

I think it's a tribute (to the book) to how much creativity has played in showing the dog's perspective.

People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.

Whether they like it or not, they are a media company. What they provide is very valuable aspects of media, all wrapped up in search. But they're missing the internal talent and internal capability to think like a media company. Everything is from a technology perspective, and that is a real shortcoming.

Sometimes it is the number of rooms (available) and sometimes it is the rate, because we need to make sure the rate is falling in line from a value perspective. So far, the biggest stumbling block is the rate.

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Speaking of inspiration, the Bible has long been a source of rich stories that emphasize the importance of faith. The Prodigal Son has been one of the most trusted parables in the Good Book, used extensively in Westerns and war, but not from the perspective of a church background, with a plot tweak that pits former best friends against each other in so dramatic a way. Packer recognized this early as the storyline unfolded It's about really having the inner fortitude to overcome anything that's in front of you, and doing that with the help of God. It's a faith-based, inspiration-themed film, one we've wanted to do for some time. ... You see the character Boris plays of David, who's raised in the church, goes away, gets into a life of fame, money, women, wealth, drugs and sex. As he journeys back, it's the redemption that he finds, it's the hope that he finds, it's the salvation that he finds.

From a historical perspective, Making Love is the first major studio film to portray gay characters in a thoughtful and accessible way. It was clearly ahead of its time and rightfully has a place in cinema history and popular culture.

He really is a poet. He is chronicling life from an 18-year-old's perspective. He's not showing off with long words, but with clever sentences. He looks around him and sees there is humor there.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

Let's put this in perspective. I mean, this issue here relates to the threat that Saddam Hussein and his regime posed to the region, to his people and to the world. And the statement in the State of the Union was one piece of one part of a much larger body of evidence.

From a recruiter's perspective, the best thing is to be referred by someone we know. We're inundated with e-mails, and while I'm open to a face-to-face courtesy meeting, I always tell people it's best to be referred by someone we know.

A Few Rules OF Life Stay in Tune with the Spirit. Take the Power. Act with Courage. Lean Into It. Anticipate and Plan. Act Successful ... Be Successful. See the Broad Perspective. Take 100 Responsibility. Seek No Ego-Satisfaction. Keep Every Commitment. Be Always A Gentleman. Have The Majesty of Calmness. Forgive, Forget and Let It Roll Off. Radiate Happiness. Don't Wobble.

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

It was scary, a real eye-opening experience. You take your health for granted, especially when you are a professional athlete. To do something like this just to play a game, it's amazing that our job includes risks like this. It's given me some perspective on this game.

That puts a stress on the company from a security perspective and a standards perspective.

From a U.S. energy policy perspective, the focus has been on environmental and fuels investments, not on investments that add to production capacity,

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

It's all about the sacrifices people have given up to make it in the world and be successful. When I first started I went to the library and went to the women's studies section. I didn't just attack the play from a male perspective.

I had always been a doodler. In 1990, I took three terms of drawing classes at LBCC and learned about perspective, art and composition.

It's hard, yet it's easy to be patient. You know what you have to do yourself. You take all of the proper steps involved. You've got the right people involved. You're thorough. It's not like we make spur-of-the-moment decisions. But at times, you're just going to get murdered from a public perspective.

It's a new category in real-estate development. So from our perspective, it's big national news. We think doing it right here in our region is incredibly exciting.

Nobody thought that we were going to win this game. We've really been communicating better and trying to keep everything in perspective because we need to keep on playing hard every night.