Perspective Quotes

• People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • True

• Put your choices in perspective.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Choices
  • Perspective

• Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Purpose

• I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • People
  • Different
  • Deep

• Women bring a different perspective to the table, and lawmaking is a compilation of diverse ideas and views and perspective. And when you don't have that, you end up making bad laws.

  

  Kathy Szeliga
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Different
  • Environment
  • Theory

• I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Writing
  • Perspective

• Women hold themselves back because they don't think their perspective matters. I'm here to tell you that you're not just robbing yourself when you do that: you're robbing all of us.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • Women
  • Perspective

• From a legal perspective, ... the copy was not on file with the auditor for 10 days.

  

  Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips Alter Bridge
  • Legal
  • Copy
  • File

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

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Long
  • Leader
  • View

• Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Famous
  • Perspective
  • California

• I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Past
  • Perspective

• I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • English
  • Perspective
  • German

• Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Creative

• Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • World
  • Space
  • Perspective

• There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I really do see the sharks evolving their perspective. In the early days of the show, if you brough them an app, they would've turned their noses up. But now they know how indispensable those apps are, even to their own traditional businesses.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Up
  • Perspective

• I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Live
  • Understanding
  • Perspective

• Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Trying

• On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Perspective
  • Empathy

• 'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • House
  • Present
  • Perspective

• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • True
  • Space
  • Focus

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