Quotes About Perspectives

I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth.

What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.

There are some movies that I absolutely hate but someone else loves - people love things for different reasons.

Many pseudoscientific and New Age belief systems emerge out of dissatisfaction with conventional values and perspectives—and are therefore themselves a kind of skepticism.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

No me gustan los intelectuales hombres de las letras con sus conversaciones sobrecargadas de citas.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

Technical disputes are the bane and boon of a lab. Yet engineering and invention often allow many ways to achieve the same result. Honest disagreements, then, are endemic in every technical enterprise. Some disputes, however, involve what programmers call "religious differences." The points at stake seem important only to zealots; a neutral party might say that both sides are right. But zealots—unable to silence their opponents with logical arguments—hurl insults. One

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

In Chapter Three it was noted that some of Schaeffer's L'Abri colleagues thought he was adopting the perspectability approach. By this they meant that at certain points, certain perspectives need to be emphasized, albeit they are not given a higher importance.

whale.The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din. For hours and hours from the almost stationary ship that hideous sight is seen. Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom of a particular culture or tribe. It is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games.

Here the play of light from high roof-windows on fountains and pools created a moving fresco on the patterned walls. Where the columns thinned in number, a great plaza was revealed: the place where Roirbak worked and played. The austere shapes and superimposed perspectives of this ostentatious indulgence produced effects that made Tammuz feel as if he were trapped in some Cubist virtual reality.

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Look, nobody is born with a sociology degree, and no one can understand all perspectives. Nobody's going to get it all from the very start. But the Internet at least allows everyone to hear these perspectives at a much faster rate than if we had to do it without it.

Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic solutions.

We have always believed that the most successful solutions reflect a diversity of skills, thinking, experiences, and outlooks.

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.

There are things that some Democrats say I agree with and some things that I disagree with. And it's the same with the Republicans.