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.
~By John M. McHugh ~
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
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 ~
My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
~By Dave Davies ~
Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.
~By Thomas P. O'Neill ~
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character.
~By James Lafferty ~
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 ~
I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
~By Joe Barton ~
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
~By Sting ~
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 ~
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.
~By Martha Beck ~
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Steve Case ~
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
~By John Clayton ~
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.
~By Tim Reid ~
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 ~
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
~By Richard Schickel ~
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
~By Konstantin Stanislavisky ~
From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
~By John Fahey ~
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 ~
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 ~
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
~By Tracey Emin ~
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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.
~By Henry Anatole Grunwald ~
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
~By Allen Klein ~
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.
~By Jo Bonner ~
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 ~
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
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 ~
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.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
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.
~By W. H. Auden ~
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 ~
And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
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 ~
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Laughter can bring a new perspective.
~By Christopher Durang ~
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 ~
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
~By Andre Agassi ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
~By Bryce Dallas Howard ~
I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
~By Paul Anka ~
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.
~By Nick Cave ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
~By Jody Watley ~
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
~By Denis Waitley ~
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
~By Brooke Shields ~
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 ~
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 ~
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
~By John Lithgow ~
From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
~By Daniel J. Bernstein ~
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
~By Steve Case ~
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 ~
Time puts things in proper perspective.
~By Cameron Crowe ~
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
~By Robert Morgan ~
It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
~By Jena Malone ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Herman Kahn ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
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.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 ~
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 ~
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
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