Top 100 Perspective View Quotes
#1. When you feel life at crossroads,
you need higher perspective view.
Toba Beta
#2. Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.
Susie Orbach
#3. If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but don't experience it. If the view were experienced, they wouldn't act the way they do!
Padampa Sangye
#4. The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.
Sally Ride
#5. As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is flat and dull in times of gray endurance, may your imagination continue to evoke horizons.
John O'Donohue
#6. You've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...
John Geddes
#7. Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.
Ellen Langer
#8. I always approached the sport from a more cerebral, analytical point of view, a management perspective. I was taking all business classes there at Georgetown, I really enjoyed that. I always sort of looked at football from that perspective.
Pete Lembo
#9. Did you ever find yourself considering matters from the Chinese point of view?'
'It would be strange if I never did, wouldn't it? Everyone should be able to consider matters form someone else's perspective.
Sherry Thomas
#10. I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.
June Jordan
#11. Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Macklemore
#12. History is the view from the cheap seats. Distance from the action provides a unique perspective; one can recognize the plays and appreciate the totality of certain events.
Debra Komar
#13. You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.
J.R. Rim
#14. If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#15. Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
Margaret Atwood
#16. You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window! ...
John Geddes
#17. Smartass Disciple: Master, I'm going to change the whole world.
Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.
Toba Beta
#18. We must each ascertain our own way to quantify the world. We can choose to peer at life harshly or benevolently. The prism that we select to view the world ultimately is the same standard that we employ to judge ourselves.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.
Ka Chinery
#20. The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.
Steve Goodier
#21. Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.
Sigfried Giedion
#22. No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.
Debra Driza
#23. The Christian coach keeps ethics in perspective by aligning his principles and values with his biblical worldview, endeavoring to see things from God's point of view.
Michael J. Marx
#24. The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
Chris Pine
#25. Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.
Peter Shepherd
#26. Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others ...
Alexandre Dumas
#27. Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.
Debbie Ford
#28. Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective.
James Ellroy
#29. I know you worry that you experience the world differently than regular people. But.. No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best... The best... The best we can ever do is try.
Debra Driza
#30. 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.
Okky Madasari
#31. When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#32. When your world gets turned upside down view it from a new perspective
Karen Salmansohn
#34. If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. Mark has the most long-term perspective I've ever seen. This guy is uber uber uber on the long-term view.
David Kirkpatrick
#36. Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.
Mark Hart
#37. I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
Gail Carriger
#38. From the cross-cultural hermeneutical point of view, there is just one philosophy, which has been practiced at various times and places around the world. From this perspective, comparing Nietzsche and Zen is not fundamentally different from comparing Nietzsche to Plato.
Andre Van Der Braak
#39. Only those who'd changed could see
things from a different point of view.
Toba Beta
#40. The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Mark Twain
#42. We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.
Chen Shui-bian
#43. Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
Warren Farrell
#44. There is a lot of work ahead of us, as we endeavor to rescue the planet from ourselves, and we are likely to be at this work for a very long time. Perhaps we could come at it from the wisdom of the non-self perspective, rather than the passions of the "world is mine" point of view.
Andrew Olendzki
#45. Moving man's view of himself and life past common thinking, the true visionary faces great difficulty: exactly that deluded mindset the sage would have listeners outgrow is the very filter through which any new perspective must pass.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#46. Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you?
Tony Curl
#47. It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective
Death Cab For Cutie
#48. You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you, I wouldn't exist.
Robert J. Sawyer
#49. ...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location taught me more about human nature and justice than could be learned from the professors' lectures.
Rohinton Mistry
#50. The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.
Edith Hamilton
#52. I wanted dad's life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to death, but the broad view, a human who was born on earth, pure and innocent, as all are at birth, and who lived a life as all humans do and died his death.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#53. Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude.
Joyce Rachelle
#54. Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
Adam Driver
#55. It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
#56. Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
John Mark Reynolds
#57. Change your point of view, and the perspective is completely different.
Jodi Picoult
#58. With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.
Peter Heather
#59. It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.
Robert Downey, Sr.
#60. It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
Myrtle Reed
#61. People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.
Boyd Rice
#62. Friendships and relationships change my perspective. Once I change my perspective, I live differently. When we gain a heart of compassion toward others who have less, we want to give more. Our view of what we need radically shifts.
Jeff Shinabarger
#63. From a broader money view perspective, however, September 2008 was the moment when the Fed moved from lender of last resort to dealer of last resort, in effect taking the collapsing wholesale money market onto its own balance sheet. But in the heat of the moment, no one noticed.
Perry G. Mehrling
#64. Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
F. Sionil Jose
#65. Every day affords individual people moments when they can shake off everything that is false and can view things from their perspective.
Jack D. Zipes
#66. Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth.
J.R. Rim
#67. Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don't have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else's.
Kate McGahan
#68. You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.
DaShanne Stokes
#69. Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.
Philip Kitcher
#71. Sometimes you don't need to change what you're looking at only get a better view.
Christopher Hawke
#72. That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#73. The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson
#74. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren Bennis
#75. Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view.
Marilynne Robinson
#76. Something else that separates me from society: Super-Positive Perspective! Where normal people would whine about subpar accommodations, I choose to view it as upscale camping.
Tim Dorsey
#77. You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.
Shannon Lucid
#78. We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
to see world from other people's perspective.
Toba Beta
#79. Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than trying to shape their interests and point of view to fit better into the world around them.
Marie Calloway
#80. Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.
Fennel Hudson
#81. We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#82. It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#83. It's not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you'll ever witness.
Dan Stevens
#84. The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. Simply put, the relative age of a philosophical perspective has nothing to do with its veracity. It is pure illusion to imagine that just because a view of life was held and put to words long ago, that it is more valid.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#86. Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
Henri Nouwen
#87. It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.
Bette Midler
#88. I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change.
Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives.
I would rather be wise, than nieve.
Nikki Rowe
#89. The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#90. Pushiness is always at war with stubborness.
Toba Beta
#91. There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
Oriana Fallaci
#92. In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broadened, enriched, expanded, and deepened.
Rob Bell
#93. The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way to shift that perspective is through gratitude, by acknowledging and appreciating the positives.
Bronnie Ware
#94. Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.
Ron Lizzi
#95. The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
Nick Bostrom
#96. In thinking about His many blessings, you view God's work from a new perspective.
Charles Stanley
#97. My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
Tony Blair
#98. As I leave the garden
I take with me a renewed view,
And a quiet soul.
Jessica Coupe
#99. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
Donna J. Haraway
#100. It seemed an odd thing to say, and yet all of us had a view from somewhere, a view of the world from the perspective of who we were, of what had happened to us, of how we thought about things.
Alexander McCall Smith
