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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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"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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"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
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"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
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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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"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Life is never a competition."
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"It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light."
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"Adversity or opportunity is university."
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"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"
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"If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer."
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"It will be awesome, if the people had the chance all stuff which surround them to see them as larger as possible so to be differences like you are a mice or something like this.... - I'm sure that people will see stuff which as normal size everything they won't see!"
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"I know many versions of truth that explain one fact."
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"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
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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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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
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"You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside."
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"Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently."
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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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"There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things."
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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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"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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"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 greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."
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