Quotes About Perspective

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view.

The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

My Dad has given me a lot of advice, but this advice comes especially from the attitude point of view. He's never told me how to drive a car, how to do a corner, nothing like that. He believe this comes from the talent. You are born with it or you are not born with it.

I have nine years of scholastic actor training, and what I've learned is that training does not an actor make. You have to have an artful way of looking at things. You have to have a certain point of view. And you get that point of view through experience.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

My political view really comes from a biblical perspective.

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I am forced to view the Middle East as if I am looking in a mirror that has been shattered.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.