Pastoral Resources

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

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 think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

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.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

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

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.