Quotes About Perspective

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.

I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.