Perspective Quotes

I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.
Gary Ackerman

Important, Hear, Dictators

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

Famous, Done, Down

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.
James Lafferty

Time, Character, Job

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
Marguerite Moreau

Family, Book, Pretty

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
David Steinberg

Time, Great, Same

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Richard Schickel

Through, Law, Pause

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
Spike Jonze

Life, Great, Happy

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
Andy Roddick

Tennis, Decent, Court

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
Jonah Goldberg

Book, Everyone, Bit

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.
Michael Chertoff

Put, Wait, Fact

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
Kathryn Stockett

Good, Black, Find

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.
Tom Perrotta

Religion, Time, Power

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.
Suzy Bogguss

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

Success, Money, Nothing

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.
Jean M. Auel

Simple, Around, Rather

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

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.
Jayson Blair

Time, Good, May

Time puts things in proper perspective.
Cameron Crowe

Time, Proper, Puts

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.
Donnie Wahlberg

Fun, Rock, Real

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

Understand, America, Service

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.
Kenneth Edmonds

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Woman, Cannot, Bring

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
Jose Padilha

Give, Sometimes, Stand

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.
Fred Frith

Life, Good, Great

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.
Kevin Garnett

Basketball, Actually, Guy

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.
Sue Grafton

Her, Getting, While

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 James Garrett

Experience, Give, Direction

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

Remains, Phenomenon, External

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

Family, Hope, Important

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.
Russel Honore

Lost, American, Industry

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