Quotes About Perspective

I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.

Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.

Canada has changed. We are a bit less self-deprecating, less apologetic about viewing our own stories.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

My own experience is that the best outcomes are reached when opposing viewpoints are clearly and strongly presented before decisions are made.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history - not only because it isn't true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive; it is boring. Good history, on the other hand, demands that one talk socratically - that one can present alternate viewpoints, not strawman arguments.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

I try to understand other people's viewpoints on things and be better in the future. I think if you look at my history as a baseball player, my history on social media and my history as a person, for those who know me well, they know that I apply that process to everything that I do.

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

Our job is to tell the world about Russia and to report world news from a Russian viewpoint.

Suggesting that just because someone who is on the telly has a superior moral viewpoint to someone who say, shelf stacks at Aldi is ridiculous.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Insofar as each of us has been through the moral stages and has held the viewpoint of each stage, we should be able to put ourselves in the internal framework of a given stage.

What I find really exciting is stories from a different viewpoint.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I'll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.

Read things to not just know what's going on, but see it from different varying viewpoints.

I think you always, with anything, need to have different viewpoints.