Best 177 quotes in «point of view quotes» category

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

It's true that a human being cannot control what happens to him. However, what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do with what happens to us. Even if the range of choice is minimal, there is always a choice. From that point of view, destiny is our battlefield. It's not a tragedy; it is what we do with it.

I think we are constantly asked day in and day out to find the things that we find frustrating or inspiring or that we're passionate about, and attack it from that angle. I don't like being lumped into the idea of being media, or liberal media for that point of view. I am not trained as a journalist.

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

That's always stuck with me, with music. I've never really gotten jaded about it. I've always loved music for the sake of doing it, and the longer I do it, the more I like it. Hopefully, I'll be able to have that same point of view in this business, or at least with doing this.

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Truth is a point of view about things.

We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.

A handshake and a smile; lost in history, rarely remembered.

A Life of poverty is not as bad as it looks through the wealthy person's eye, neither is the life of the wealthy is as delightful as it looks through the poor's.

An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view. They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant. In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending.

Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.