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"Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves."
"It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness."
"We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective."
"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."
"The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet."
"Things are only worth what you make them worth."
"Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand."
"There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small."
"Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives."
"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."
"As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves."
"To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions."
"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered"
"Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light."
"Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological."
"As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music."
"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."
"It's my personal perspective that you live as hard and as vigorously as you can."
"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
"Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective."
