Quotes About Other Perspectives

#1. To change a perspective, we need to be willing to see other perspectives, choose to see other perspectives, release all judgments about the situation, let go of the perspective that hurts us, and then decide to choose a better, healthier perspective." Changing

Lori Rubenstein

#2. Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

Gordon T. Smith

#3. Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

Jim Leach

#4. The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

Nabil N. Jamal

#5. It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Only you can make your dreams come true ...or not.

Gavin Mills

#7. Milton's learned vocabulary [ ... ] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Broadbent

#8. The more the "Autism World" is invested in politics it will continue to implode and more voices will be lost as a result

Paul Isaacs

#9. I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

Fred Ritchin

#10. More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

Reese Witherspoon

#11. I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

K.K. Raghava

#12. When someone slaps me with their perspectives, it is not a permission slip to slap them with ours! Pride prevents unity! EL

Evinda Lepins

#13. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Craig Dent

#14. The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

T.D. Jakes

#15. If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Nick Woodman

#16. Inward battles had lost their chains in the new dawn of Ed's night, and victories were cheering in the calm welcome of new thoughts carrying new perspectives that warmed the tone of his confidence, and made it glow.

Calvin W. Allison

#17. In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore together, it takes a collective sharing of power, creativity, and perspectives to become agile and nuanced enough to lead into the uncertain future.

Jennifer Garvey Berger

#18. Perhaps the best antidote and preventive for burnout is the feeling of solid connection with the people in our lives. When we can share our frustrations with family and friends, our burden is eased and we can get new perspectives.

Richard O'Connor

#19. It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

Ethan Zuckerman

#20. I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

Werner Herzog

#21. There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#22. I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

Ruth Ozeki

#23. Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.

J.G. Ballard

#24. The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

James Surowiecki

#25. I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

Itzhak Perlman

#26. Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!

Ray Bradbury

#27. For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

James Surowiecki

#28. Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

Paul Bloom

#29. To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

Elizabeth Thornton

#30. Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.

Nikita Gill

#31. I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives ... The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.

George Papandreou

#32. Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*

Daniel H. Pink

#33. I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able to laugh off a lot of things between myself and others, but it's still difficult trying to look at things from their perspectives.

Jessica Jung

#34. One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

John C. Maxwell

#35. Conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other.

Huston Smith

#36. I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I spend time at the beach and with my loved ones. I like traveling to unfamiliar places to challenge my perspectives and glean wisdom from other ways of life.

Rose McIver

#37. What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

Steven Johnson

#38. Think through the well-meaning motivations of both your Dictator and your Wild Child, until you really understand that within their limited perspectives they're doing their very best. Then offer them both kindness.

Martha N. Beck

#39. Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.

Moez Surani

#40. The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#41. My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.

Matt Czuchry

#42. A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

Ron Garan

#43. Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

Dean Wareham

#44. Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.

Gautama Buddha

#45. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

Keanu Reeves

#46. With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

Conor Oberst

#47. There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.

Amanda Mosher

#48. Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

Annalee Newitz

#49. It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#50. I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

Kimbra

#51. Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

Roberto Assagioli

#52. The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

Terence McKenna

#53. Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

Dalai Lama

#54. To go to any extreme is to limit oneself.

Marty Rubin

#55. Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.

Soul Dancer

#56. The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

Albert Bandura

#57. As Winston Churchill said, "Dogs look up to you, Cats look down on you." It's just that I discovered that being looked at from both of those perspectives is where I want to be.

Emily Yoffe

#58. In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do some fairly standard philosophical analysis of ideas in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

Philip Kitcher

#59. The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

Nicholas Negroponte

#60. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Elizabeth Thornton

#61. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

Katharine Hayhoe

#62. As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

Jack Ma

#64. When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted. He was the aggrieved party and yet he felt guilty and would continue to do so all his life.

Kiran Nagarkar

#65. Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.

David Bezmozgis

#66. Everyone's memories and feelings are subjective, and we're teach trapped in our own perspectives. But the difference between perspectives, collectively, create objectivity.

Bao Shu

#67. I'd tried to explain to her that she needed to stop seeing the world through pretty-girl glasses. It skewed her perspectives.

Sariah Wilson

#68. I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.

Nina Jacobson

#69. Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don't understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#70. The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.

Mark Earley

#71. If you can't challenge your own way of thinking, then you can't write various perspectives. The real world rarely agrees, which is also true in fiction.

G.P. Burdon

#72. I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment.

Thea Bowman