Richard Schickel Quotes

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Richard Schickel

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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Perspective

• Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Real
  • Parents
  • Perspective

• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Crazy
  • Perspective
  • Sharp

• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Perspective

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Think
  • Weird

• I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Star
  • Speak

• I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Perspective
  • Canvas

• '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
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Long
  • Perspective
  • Leader

• I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Perspective
  • Internet

• Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Church

• Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Election
  • Depend
  • Duck

• When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Focus
  • Perspective
  • Choose

• 'Madden' is the closest thing to actually being on the field yourself. It's so ridiculously realistic. Before I play it, I honestly didn't understand. 'What's all the hype? It's a video game'. Then I sat down and played it, and you feel like you're on the field.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Game

• I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• There is no fashion so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Fashion

• The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

  

  Richard Schickel
  • Perspective
  • Pushes
  • Unintended