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With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
Italo Calvino— Page 44 (Invisible Cities (1972))
Lichtenberg … held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. … It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was “strange” (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.
maurice merleau-ponty— pp. 45-46 (In Praise of Philosophy (1963))
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.
stephen jay gould— p. 51 (Wonderful Life (1989))
The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.
stephen jay gould— "Glow, Big Glowworm" (p. 264)
Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.
stephen harper— Faith Today, January 11, 2006, "Faith and Politics: Party Leaders Respond"
Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.
henry mintzberg— Partly cited in Changing by design: a practical approach to leading innovation in nonprofit organizations by Douglas C. Eadie (1997, p.128)
Monologues, in which one person does all the talking, are longer speeches than participants have expressed so far. This does not mean that a monologue expresses only one point of view, its interest lies in the variety of perspectives that the speaker may present as part of the argument . Monologues are valuable components in the devising process and can serve as introduction, reflections and/or as links between scenes.
— Monica Prendergast, Juliana Saxton, in "Applied Drama: A Facilitator's Handbook for Working in Community", p.156
At few periods in modern history, has the mission of building pluralistic societies been more important than at present. Celebrating the diversity of perspectives and opinions, faiths and cultures, languages and traditions is a prerequisite to building harmonious and successful societies.
— Firoz Rasul, President of Aga Khan University, Address to the 2006 Convocation of the Aga Khan University - Karachi, Pakistan, December 2, 2006
So much of our human resourcefulness comes from having multiple ways to describe the same situations so that each one of those different perspectives may help us to get around the deficiencies of the other ones.
— Marvin Minsky (2006) The Emotion Machine
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.
— Stephen Jay Gould (1989) Wonderful Life p. 51
Software architecture is a relatively young discipline. There is as much confusion in it as there is excitement. In the literature one finds far too many perspectives, approaches, methodologies, frameworks, techniques and tricks.
— ?Varma Vasudeva (2009) Software Architecture: A Case Based Approach. p. 2
Various perspectives exist in an enterprise, such as ef?ciency, quality, and cost. Any system for enterprise engineering must be capable of representing and managing these different perspectives in a well-de?ned way.
— Michael Grüninger and Mark S. Fox (1995) "The role of competency questions in enterprise engineering." Benchmarking—Theory and Practice. Springer US, 1995. 22-31.
Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.
— Henry Mintzberg, Mintzberg (1994), (partly) cited in Douglas C. Eadie (1997) Changing by design: a practical approach to leading innovation in nonprofit organizations . p.128
As we go through life, we’re piling on deeper and deeper layers of consciousness, which leads to a greater capacity to take multiple perspectives. It’s a little like the many layers of dessert piled on Miss Piggy’s plate at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Only with this, it’s less carbs and more nutrition.
Kermit the Frog— "The creative act of listening to a talking frog," TEDx Talk (2014)
