Quotes About Perspectives

Pride is not all of one kind.

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

It is a state of mind, a learning of the oneness of things, an appreciation for fundamental insights known in Eastern philosophy and religion as simply the Way [or Tao]. For Boyd, the Way is not an end but a process, a journey…The connections, the insights that flow from examining the world in different ways, from different perspectives, from routinely examining the opposite proposition, were what were important. The key is mental agility

Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the more perspectives you can entertain—the more empathy you can show and the better your ability to see things from a variety of viewpoints—the higher you land on these scales.

But other people have universes with super-important dealios in them, too.

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

As an independent skeptical of all news stations and wanting to understand diverse perspectives, I tend to navigate between CNN, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and yes, FOX.

Most of us think that history is the past. It's not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That's all it is. Stories. Such a definition might make the enterprise of history seem neutral. Benign.

Even if we acknowledge the existence of distinct and irreducible perspectives, the wish for a unified conception of the world doesn't go away. If we can't achieve it in a form that eliminates individual perspectives, we may inquire to what extent it can be achieved if we admit them.

By accepting its marginal status, the church can actually engage in a freer kind of service as a result of not having to be in control. Describing the power of powerlessness, he states, "Powerless churches need not wrangle over the relationship between evangelism and social action (this was always essentially about power), but can develop fresh perspectives on seemingly intractable social issues, because things look different from the margins.

You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

M?i gia Ä'ình h?nh phúc ??u gi?ng nhau nhÆ°ng các gia Ä'ình b?t h?nh thì b?t h?nh theo cách riêng c?a h?.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

You've got to make a new set of friends and interact with a new set of prejudices every time.

When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair