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Perspective Quotes
"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world."
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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
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"Look at the world through your vision not through the misperceptions of others."
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"Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!"
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"I ask, 'Is the cup half-empty or half-full?' And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup."
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"As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it."
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"For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool."
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"What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins."
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"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."
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"Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust."
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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
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"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."
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"What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands."
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"I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level."
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"A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others. Also, atheists are no different from all those orthodox believers."
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"A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here."
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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music."
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"Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring."
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"Count your summers, not your winters."
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"Life is never fast track."
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"Her action in defending MarcA£o meant one thing to him and something quite different to her, it was so different that it was not even the same event."
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"The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another."
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"Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal."
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"You've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ..."
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"We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment.Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion."
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"The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts."
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"This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height."
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"No one knows what goes down between a woman and her man except that woman. Only thing they know is what went down with their own men."
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"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."
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"A predator on land is prey in the sea."
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"A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth,depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations."
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"How you see the world may not be how others view it."
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"Look up at the moon, don't think about yourself."
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"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be."
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"A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet."
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"Whether you are lost in the darkness or dance in the light is entirely up to you."
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"Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home."
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"It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude."
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"You can't solve a problem: but problems will dissolve in you."
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"I like "Julie Gold's song "From a Distance". Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life."
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"We evaluate, measure, and describe this world from our own point of view, but how does a tree see the world?"
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"An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle, its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball."
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"In order to understand the universal perspective,first you have to know more than a version of truth."
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"Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible."
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"Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it."
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"When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back."
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"A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid."
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"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."
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