Quotes About Perspectives

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

One of the things that I love about Robert Altman's movies is that, really, a Robert Altman movie is just a bunch of short films about various people told at the same time.

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.

Tim Keller observes, "We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways."3

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Memphis both fueled Elvis's creative development and twisted his perspectives. Essentially, he and the town mirrored each other. They were both quiet and polite on the outside. Below the surface, they were ready to burst.

That's really an exceedingly sophisticated idea, epistemologically speaking. Does it mean that parts of the world are spurious? Or that sometimes the whole world is spurious? Or that there are plural worlds of which one is real and the others are not? Is there essentially one matrix world from which people derive differing perceptions? So that the world you see is not the world I see?

Any effort to stop the left's plan for a societal transformation must begin with measures to restore universities to the institutions they once were -- to see to it that liberal arts faculties adhere to the same nonideological standards as the sciences and that faculties once again feature diverse political perspectives that reflect the diversity of society at large.

Where I come from, said Archie, a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her. Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean, said Samad tersely, that it is a good idea.

I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.

We've all got our own opinions, our own way of appreciating the game.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

John Hedley Brooke's Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Knowledge of yourself may involve, if we are learning at the present time, a knowledge of the way of thinking of your society and to realise that you are probably its product, and that this knowledge can be attained in fact by such anthropological and psychological observations made by the Sufis in the course of their teaching how to pursue new and more promising extra perspectives.

From an atom to The Milky Way to The Cosmos itself, the perspectives of size is the greatest thought of immense confounding complexity.