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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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"This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?"
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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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"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
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"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
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"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."
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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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"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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"Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed."
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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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"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
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"Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are."
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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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"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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"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information."
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"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
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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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"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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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
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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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"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"
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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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"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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"It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth."
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"Adversity or opportunity is university."
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"If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass."
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"Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home."
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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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"Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad."
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"Chances are that whatever that you are worried about-be it a person or a thing-isn't worried about you."
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"Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently."
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"Money does not determine our worth."
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"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
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"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
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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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"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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"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."
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"My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan ."
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"The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller."
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"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
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"Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don't fully see that in Christ, because of Christ, through Christ, He does give us all things good - until we have the perspective of years.In time, years, dust settles.In memory, ages, God emerges."
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"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
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"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light."
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"People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that's out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!"
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