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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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"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
50
"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
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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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"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."
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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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"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."
43
"People say 'dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky', this is your feeling, not the Dog's!!!"
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"Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are."
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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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"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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"A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems."
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"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
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"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
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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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"Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for."
39
"It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth."
38
"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"
38
"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
37
"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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"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."
36
"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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"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."
35
"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."
35
"Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently."
35
"Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad."
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"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
34
"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
34
"I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference."
34
"Adversity or opportunity is university."
34
"If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass."
34
"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."
33
"It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."
33
"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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"Money does not determine our worth."
33
"My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan ."
32
"If there was anything the last year had taught her-if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her-it was that perspective was everything. If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story."
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"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
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"You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal."
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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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