Quotes About Perspective

There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.

They couldn't have a little kid occupying an important spot on the front row, so I sat in the back where all the models changed clothes. I remember vividly the rustling and the rush of the fabrics of the clothes and the swoosh of textures and color as they went by. I was in the back, but I had a front-row seat, in my opinion.

Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have always wanted to share my perspective of these world renowned institutions.

The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'

I have a cultural map in my head, where I find similarities between different cultures. For example, domestic Japanese pop music sounds like Arabic music to me - the vocal intonations and vibrato - and, in my mind, Bali is next to New York. Maybe everyone has these geographies in their head. This is the way I've been working.

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.

I think we're living, in terms of media, in a very democratic age, but I think that we still look at everything through the lens of 'Vogue' and through our own point of view.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy's mind. But most people don't do that.

It's important to have your own voice.

Everyone has a voice, and I don't think mine is that different.

A little prosperity and peace, or even a turn slightly for the better, can bring us feelings of self-sufficiency. We can feel quickly that we are in control of our lives, that the change for the better is our own doing, not that of a God who communicates to us through the still, small voice of the Spirit.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak for myself.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.