Quotes About Perspective

21. A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls a thing what it actually is.

The world is a head of thistles; whichever way you turn it, it stretches the thorns about itself.

Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics.

For example, imagine that two people each have a hundred dollars. One person carries it in a paper bag. The other keeps it in an iron chest. Both have the same treasure no matter where they put it. Similarly, we all have the same Christ. It doesn't matter if one person has a stronger or weaker faith than another. Both of them still believe in the same Christ and have everything through him.

Seeing is not always believing.

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Quando si diventa adulti, non si ascolta più, e quando si ascolta, per sbaglio, lo si fa con la condiscendenza divertita i chi crede di aver vissuto.

il n'y a pas de grandes ou de petites choses, il n'y a que de grandes ou petites facons de les considérer.

Without such beliefs and stories, as Carl Jung put it, we would be 'crushed by the sheer awe-fullness of the universe'. In other words, without a story to give us a place in the greater picture, we will become lost or, even worse, think that we are the story.

The global village will have its village idiots and they'll have global range.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations.

Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.

The wise person is one who can see beyond the immediate and recognize the long-term consequences of their actions.

The usual reason given for women's shorter hours is the famous double burden. However, upon closer inspection, this well-worn argument falls apart.[408]

you'll start to see that how you think about yourself, others, and objects, and the world in general, will start to shift to fit with your new patterns of expression.

Unlike the huge majority of the current generation in the West, the men on both sides at Dien Bien Phu did not live at a time or in places where they enjoyed the luxury of disregarding [that war is what human beings do]; and we, who are lifelong civilians, have not earned the right to sit in judgement over them.

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.