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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective. -- Sara Genn
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. -- Alain de Botton
Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own. -- J. B. MacKinnon
From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off. -- Judy Woodruff
I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington. -- Dave Barry
Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal. -- Jonathan Franzen
I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting their views into the congressional process, you're going to have a skewed outcome. -- Keith Ellison
Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. -- John Corey Whaley
For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first. -- Junot Diaz
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step. -- Shepard Fairey
It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones. -- Lizzie Brochere
It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. -- Terry Pratchett
One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it? -- Greg Dworkin
For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner. -- Lee Myung-bak
To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money. -- Anthony Edwards
No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it. -- Danica Patrick
My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old. -- Malcolm-Jamal Warner
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service. -- John M. McHugh
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from. -- Anne Wojcicki
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. -- Anne Northup
One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective. -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country. -- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective. -- Dan Chaon
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us. -- Daniel H. Pink
I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin. -- Prince Royce
One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground. -- Sonny Perdue
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. -- Jean Rostand
A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment. -- Bret Michaels
My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy's perspective. You look at my closet and I have pairs of black jeans and five button-downs, but one's silk, one's cotton. They all are slightly different, so that's my perspective. -- Erin Wasson
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant, and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas. -- Judith Butler
Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel. -- Christopher Moore
To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing. -- Vivian Amis
The choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. -- Andrea Goeglein
One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally. -- Zadie Smith
If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly. -- Sean Lennon
An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective. -- Richard Briers
Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. -- Terry Pratchett
To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective -- David Guterson
I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you've known your whole life. -- M.J. Prest
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention. -- Roy Lichtenstein
One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone. -- Dan B. Allender
Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary. -- Alison Assiter
So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer. -- Dewitt Jones
Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter. -- Thomas H. Cook
Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective. -- Stephanie Gilmore
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. -- Daisaku Ikeda
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." -- James Dobson
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. -- Clarence Darrow
Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all. -- Andrea Goeglein
Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life. -- Spiros Zodhiates
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. -- Robert Breault
I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse. -- Holly Goldberg Sloan
The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. -- Gregory Maguire
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. -- Miguel Syjuco
Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy. -- Paul Tournier
Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light. -- Rosemary M. Wixom
In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one. -- Timothy Olyphant
We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective. -- Esther Hicks
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it. -- N. T. Wright
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike." -- Anne Northup
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective. -- Rollo May
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself. -- Barry Zito
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In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective. -- Jaggi Vasudev
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. -- Carl Sagan
If [after one role] you believe that you've mastered acting and you don't have to study the craft or get a deeper perspective, then you're not going to succeed. -- Usher
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time. -- John Berger
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present. -- Robert Harris
I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective? -- Common
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented. -- Philip Zimbardo

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