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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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"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
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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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"This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?"
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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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"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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"Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed."
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"I still write the same way and have the same 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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"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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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
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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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"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."
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"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
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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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"Adversity or opportunity is university."
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"A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems."
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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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"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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"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
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"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information."
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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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"You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal."
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"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"
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"It may be that we're not seeing the wonder in life because all we're doing is wondering how we're going to survive life."
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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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"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
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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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"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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"My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan ."
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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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"Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad."
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"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
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"Money does not determine our worth."
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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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"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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"If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass."
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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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"Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently."
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"Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings."
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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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"Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large."
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