The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
~By Frank Shorter ~
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.
~By Tom Hanks ~
My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
~By Dave Davies ~
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.
~By Rowan Williams ~
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
~By Paul Anka ~
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.
~By Kerry King ~
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.
~By David Cronenberg ~
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.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
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.
~By Dee Hock ~
I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.
~By Nicholas Brendon ~
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.
~By Grete Waitz ~
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
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.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
~By Bill Richardson ~
I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.
~By Scott McCallum ~
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.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
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.
~By David Gill ~
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.
~By Steve Case ~
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
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.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
~By Sean Bean ~
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.
~By Debi Mazar ~
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
~By David Korten ~
I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
~By Holly Near ~
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
~By Steve Case ~
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
Time puts things in proper perspective.
~By Cameron Crowe ~
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
~By Jeffrey Wright ~
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.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.
~By Joe Mays ~
One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?
~By Greg Dworkin ~
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
~By Holly Near ~
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
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.
~By Steve Case ~
From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
~By John Fahey ~
The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.
~By Roger B. Chaffee ~
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.
~By Ted Koppel ~
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
~By John Constable ~
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
~By Sting ~
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.
~By Debra Messing ~
I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.
~By Charles James ~
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
~By Jodie Foster ~
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
~By Allen Klein ~
Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
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.
~By Herman Kahn ~
The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.
~By Mike Leigh ~
The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
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.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
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.
~By John Rowland ~
Laughter can bring a new perspective.
~By Christopher Durang ~
And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
~By Carmen Electra ~
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.
~By Christopher Morley ~
I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
~By Meg Ryan ~
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
~By Truman Capote ~
The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
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.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.
~By Melissa Bean ~
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
~By Owen Feltham ~
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.
~By Danny Bonaduce ~
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
~By Barney Frank ~
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
~By Kevin Garnett ~
There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
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.
~By Fred Frith ~
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.
~By Warren Farrell ~
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.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
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.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.
~By Thomas P. O'Neill ~
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.
~By James D'arcy ~
My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .
~By Kool Moe Dee ~
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.
~By Anne Northup ~
I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
~By Sue Grafton ~
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
~By Irving R. Kaufman ~
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.
~By Neil Diamond ~
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
~By William P. Leahy ~
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
~By John Lithgow ~
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
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.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
~By Lauren Graham ~
There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
~By Alan Kay ~
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
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.
~By Henry Reed ~
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
~By Dana Hill ~
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.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
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.
~By Damon Hill ~
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
~By Gregory Peck ~
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
~By Christine Todd Whitman ~
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