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The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.
Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.
One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.
The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.
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.
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 putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.
The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.
I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.
Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ.
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God’s Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.
I think we come at it from somewhat different perspectives. You know, Donald [Trump] was very fortunate in his life, and that's all to his benefit.
TV is part of your life - it makes you feel connected to the rest of the world - as opposed to someone else's perspective crushed into a few hours.
With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.
If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.
Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.
We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in an even keel.
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.
I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.
The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don't judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
Since I got into coaching, Coach Carroll's been nothing but great to me and always been willing to help and share some advice and give a perspective.
I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.
Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.