Quotes About Perspectives

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

A debate can only be a debate if you have balance.

I like to hear conversations that are debates.

I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

There are differences between the Right and the Likud.

I like the differences between American and British television dramas.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

People have different opinions. That's what Twitter is for.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

Chits knew no ideology.

I learned that my emotional truth was being dictated by my subconscious perspectives of life, by the definitions of life that had been imposed on me as a child, by the subconscious attitudes that I had adopted because of the emotional traumas I had experienced as a child.

Indeed, many of the recommendations in this book are controversial. You will probably not agree with all of them.

We must learn to develop ourselves. At the same time, it is a world teeming with critical problems and opportunities, best solved and seized by entrepreneurs—individuals or small groups who think independently, adapt quickly, and possess unique perspectives. Your individualized, creative skills will be at a premium.

Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.

Naturally, no professional man of our time bases his arguments on those of philosophy and theology, but as perspectives—empty, like space, and yet, like space, telescoping the objects in it—these two rivals for the last word of wisdom persist everywhere in invading the optics of each special field of knowledge.

Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write.