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Perspective Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

And I’d say one of the great lessons I’ve learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.
Steve Case

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don’t see very often in the press.
Patricia Heaton

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace – it lends perspective.
Paul Anka

Never solve a problem from its original perspective.
Charles Thompson

If you’re doing something new you’ve got to have a vision. You’ve got to have a perspective. You’ve got to have some north star you’re aiming for, and you just believe somehow you’ll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
Steve Case

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian’s efforts to reach all Americans.
Xavier Becerra

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche

“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel “burnout” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.”
Dalai Lama

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
Damon Hill

Emotions get in the way but they don’t pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
Ted Koppel

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can’t get on your own.
Jesse J. Garrett

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
Danny Bonaduce

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
Tracey Ullman

It’s a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.
Kerry King

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I’m partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil Diamond

It’s no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
Bob Schieffer

It’s stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
Steve Case

Laughter can bring a new perspective.
Christopher Durang

It’s very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
Jena Malone

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Kenneth L. Pike

It’s a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I’m a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.
Debra Messing

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
Henry Anatole Grunwald

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
Brian Koslow

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.
Charles Garfield

If you’re religious, it gives you a perspective.
Martha Beck

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
W. H. Auden

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.
John Podesta

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don’t know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
Ryan Gosling

Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.
Owen Felltham

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
Stephen R. Covey

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Ellen J. Langer

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
Martin Luther King

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in perspective.
Paul Ce¤� zanne

Never write about a place until you’re away from it, because that gives you perspective.
Ernest Hemingway

When you’re in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That’s the consolation of philosophy.
David Cronenberg

Eventually the bad stuff I’m writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I’ve just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I’d have a better perspective when I came back to it.
Margaret Haddix

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.
George Eliot

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Denis Waitley

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
Warren Farrell

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don’t take yourself seriously.
Thomas P. O’Neill

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You’ve really got to know the impact of what you’re wearing on the character you’re playing.
Kyle MacLachlan

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
John Rowland

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.
Paul Cellucci

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

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences – this life and beyond – we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
Henry Reed

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That’s the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
Nick Cave

He hasn’t said whether he remembers the episode itself – or, if he doesn’t, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn’t said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.
Michael Kinsley

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth’s ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age – but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
Herman Kahn

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn

In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
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From a security perspective, if you’re connected, you’re screwed.
Daniel J. Bernstein

I guess I don’t have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don’t think I’d like it.
Calvin Klein

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
Gregory Peck

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.
David Gill

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

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
Wilhelm Dilthey

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.
Jo Bonner

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
Suzanne Vega

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God’s name whatever I can discern of God’s perspective on the world around – something which involves both challenge and comfort.
Rowan Williams

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It’s not that I don’t want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
Matthew Sweet

From a reality perspective, I’m sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don’t know what is.
Jennifer Granholm

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.
Hugh Jackman Chestnut

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
Allen Klein

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
John Kricfalusi

A lot of times, women don’t get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they’re not really dealing well.
Morris Chestnut

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
Morris

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