Perspective Quotes

• I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.

  

  Linton Kwesi Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

  

  John Fahey
  • Friends
  • Perspective

• Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Abuse
  • Holocaust
  • Victims

• Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

  

  Benedict Samuel
  • Good
  • Perspective

• I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Good
  • Food
  • Perspective

• I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Money
  • Perspective
  • Monster

• This experimentation is the custom-and properly so-in those sciences where mathematical demonstrations are applied to natural phenomena, as is seen in the case of perspective, astronomy, mechanics, music, and others where the principles, once established by well-chosen experiments, become the foundations of the entire superstructure.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Music
  • Perspective

• It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Perspective

• From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Important
  • Future
  • Question

• Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Different
  • Perspective

• Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

  

  Rush Limbaugh
  • Perspective
  • Begin
  • Day Of Birth

• I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • Different
  • Small
  • Perspective

• From a technology and economic perspective, it's vastly more likely that autonomy will be used for mobility services.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • Technology
  • Perspective

• I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

  

  Elle King
  • Life
  • Live
  • Perspective

• I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.

  

  Bud Selig
  • Player
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• You have to have a good perspective, not just on football, but on life. You really have to have your life in order in terms of what's important to you. I had to understand that football was important to me, but it wasn't my life.

  

  Nate Kaeding
  • Life
  • Football
  • Perspective

• From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of history as a process of improving the efficiency of this system through four basic methods:

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • May
  • History
  • Single

• I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.

  

  Daayiee Abdullah
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Power

• There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Life
  • Science
  • Engineering

• From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • Guy
  • Perspective
  • Forties

• I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Women
  • Perspective

• As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Different
  • Important
  • Women

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