Men: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z
Women: A B C D E G H J K L M N O P R S T V Z

Perspective Quotes

Perspectives or viewpoints vary far and wide. Depending upon the perspective you share you are termed either an optimistic person or a cynic or ‘sitting on the fence’ kind of a person. The world is composed of many ethnic groups with different upbringing from different longitudes and latitudes, so it is but obvious that everyone is entitled to a different opinion. The mark of a cultured and a tolerant person would be to respect the various outlooks. Read the next section to know more about the famous viewpoint quotations and sayings.

George Carlin

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Jessica Chastain

I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective.

Jon Favreau

Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.

Christopher Morley

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.

Things Humor
Cameron Boyce

As I grow up, and knowing that the people who I'm reaching are so young, it for sure changes my perspective on how I want to be perceived.

Charles Kingsley

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Ryan Gosling

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

Franklin P. Jones

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Pete Buttigieg

In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces.

Chris Pine

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Thomas Hobbes

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Eudora Welty

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

George Carlin

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Charlie Hunnam

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

Eudora Welty

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Meg Ryan

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.

Dalai Lama

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Franklin P. Jones

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

George Carlin

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Timothee Chalamet

Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.

Jordan Peele

We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

Steve King

We've heard some things from Pope Francis that are not fully supportive of free enterprise capitalism. That should be a problem from an American perspective.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Paul Walker

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

Zendaya

I hate when books are written from the wrong perspective; when they're written by adults for tweenagers. Like, do you truly remember what it's like to be 12? No, not really.

Mac Miller

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

Judy Garland

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

Jodie Foster

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

Rajon Rondo

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

W. H. Auden

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.

Brad Pitt

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

Anurag Kashyap

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

Denis Waitley

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

Denis Waitley

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.

Val Kilmer

My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

Children
Selena Gomez

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

Stephen Hawking

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data.

Rachel Weisz

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Tucker Carlson

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

Dinner
Steven Spielberg

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

Angela Merkel

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.

Selena Gomez

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

Ryan Gosling

I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.

Angela Merkel

We need a really credible perspective toward long-term de-carbonization.

It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.

Jeff Bridges

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

Ivanka Trump

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.

Sometimes there are imma­ture kids who make jokes about (Hanukkah), but other than that, everyone is really accept­ing

Hanukkah has very little accouterments attached to it ... Besides dreidels and gold, foil-wrapped coins, the menorah is the way to showcase the holiday.

Holidays help because they come with stories, and the Hanukkah story is good for relaying that the divine pervades everything, even darkness.

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.

On Hallowe'en the thing you must do Is pretend that nothing can frighten you And if somethin' scares you and you want to run Just let on like it's Hallowe'en fun.

Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.