#perspective

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#care #choice #empty #full #glass

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. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#audience #character #closer #first #i

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#distance #even #fact #four #go

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. ↗

— Anne Northup

#country #i #i think #moms #perspective

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. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#change #continuous #dynamic #entities #especially

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

— Gregory Peck

#faith #gives #inner #inner strength #life

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#case #every #experiences #hear #helped

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. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#affairs #awareness #everyday #important #intellectual

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#emotions #life #perspective #thinking #tragedy