Perspective Quotes

• Ultimately, the main reason that you want more women in the sciences is the same reason you want more gay men in the sciences. It's the same reason you want more Latinos or African Americans; it's because if you come at a problem from a different perspective, you will be offering a creative vision that wasn't there before.

  

  Cara Santa Maria
  • Different
  • Women
  • Reason

• You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

  

  Craig Venter
  • Life
  • Live
  • Education

• Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Failure
  • Perspective

• As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Perspective

• Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Opinion

• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Future
  • Perspective

• Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reality

• I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.

  

  Ashraf Barhom
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Black
  • Smart
  • Perspective

• I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Fashion
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Giving
  • Perspective

• It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Life
  • Perspective

• From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Value
  • Challenge

• I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.

  

  Craig Sherman
  • Perspective

• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• 'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Law
  • Perspective
  • Catholic

• Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Writing
  • She
  • Black

• What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Great
  • Music
  • Wall

• After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!' And then Sasha added, 'Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.' So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Time
  • Perspective

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Meditation

• Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

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