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Quotes About Perspective

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other. We
~ Daniel Kahneman
What you see is all there is
~ Daniel Kahneman
I am best viewed from a distance.
~ Jenny Eclair
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
~ Eric Schmidt
I always viewed life in a different way. For example, when I was flooded with offers and I was on radio, on television or giving music in films, I had so much work that I didn't know when morning came and when night came.
~ Anu Malik
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
~ John Clayton
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.
~ Bill Sienkiewicz
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
~ Jeremy Paxman
I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.
~ Henry Thomas
Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.
~ Susan Vreeland
It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.
~ Jim Lee
I enjoyed writing in school. I don't know that I was all that good at it in school. I worked at it later. I feel comfortable writing now. I enjoy writing now. I suspect, like most college students, I viewed writing then to be more tedious.
~ Michael Hayden
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
~ Joseph Brodsky
My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.
~ Judy Sheindlin
I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat.
~ Jordan Peele
I intend to apply the perspective of astrobiology, which is a deep-time way of looking at life on Earth, towards the question of the Anthropocene. What does the human phenomenon on Earth look like viewed from an interplanetary perspective?
~ David Grinspoon
Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy - just because I'm from a similar background and profession, it's such an easy comparison to make. It's also quite annoying being viewed through the prism of someone else's personality and identity, rather than your own.
~ Chuka Umunna
I have never viewed myself as disabled.
~ Jessica Long
At the end of the day, you have to admit that it's just not cricket anymore; it is a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry, that has to be viewed in a correct and sober perspective.
~ Sucheta Dalal
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
~ Ansel Adams
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
~ Fay Godwin
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
~ Rockwell Kent
The 'indistinguishable from magic' thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech.
~ Ann Leckie
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
~ David Lynch