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Perspective Quotes
"He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical."
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"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point."
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"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
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"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."
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"The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important."
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"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
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"We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather that be told by them."
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"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."
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"Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed."
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"If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races."
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"While it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China-proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective."
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"When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude."
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"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information."
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"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
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"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
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"With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end."
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"A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems."
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"I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference."
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"This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?"
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"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
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"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
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"Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"
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"Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad."
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"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"
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"This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain."
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"I know many versions of truth that explain one fact."
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"It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth."
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"But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver."
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"Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are."
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"When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder."
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"Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."
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"When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy."
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"Adversity or opportunity is university."
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"People say 'dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky', this is your feeling, not the Dog's!!!"
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"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
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"Right knowledge (samikit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, 'this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.' There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you."
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"It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."
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"Life is never a competition."
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"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell."
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"Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently."
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"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
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"If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass."
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"Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?''Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?''You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder."
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"Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for."
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"My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan ."
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