Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat – such as conscientiously hunted animals – involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.
My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.
I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems.
You get perspective on things when you’re away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.
Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not ‘communication.’ Bombs result in death and destruction.
I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what’s really going on.
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.
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller’s perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.
Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it’s a stressful environment… You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, ‘What am I doing here? I’m just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.’
You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn’t have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.
I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.
If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you’re going to be lost.
I’m a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.
A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In ‘Weaker Girl,’ I was coming from a wounded healer’s perspective.
I saw ‘The Shining’ in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn’t really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.
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.
Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.
To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It’s important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.
Some readers tell me, ‘We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.’ You know, that’s interesting, but I wonder what your maid’s perspective was on that.
When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you’re a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family – that’s your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.
I’m a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren’t as bad as they seem.
I think a spell abroad for anybody is incredibly useful. It gives you a great sense of perspective, and you see other ways of doing things.
My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I’ve done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
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.
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they’re talking about me for.
I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It’s interesting to see the male perspective.
Before being elected to Congress, I was a mayor, and it’s this perspective that makes me certain that Ed FitzGerald is the right kind of leader to get Ohio back on track.
I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.
Try to see things differently – It’s the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.
Fame is a problem of perspective.
I like L.A., but it’s just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
You’re going to have your struggles every now and then, but you’ve just got to always keep it in perspective and try to have a good time.
I’m a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it’s the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I’m playing, to not make too big a deal of it… that’s where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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.
I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider’s perspective.
Working gives you this new perspective. You don’t take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don’t do too well on a history test, it’s not the end of the world.
People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn’t the case. Even though they don’t necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That’s always been their perspective.
Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she’s really talented and very, very funny.
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it’s not merely about being oppositional, because that’s too negative.
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’.
I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.
Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.
Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative – satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don’t have to have otherwise.
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
Most people’s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician’s perspective.
I’ve kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I’m filled with rage. It’s so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.
The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That’s a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.
Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek – people who were always trying to do something else – I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective – and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
