Best 177 quotes in «point of view quotes» category

People tend to see what they want when they see video footage and it is not always the whole truth.

One man's god is another man's devil.

Petty mindedness instructs eyes to see everything from an unappropriate standpoint, beautifulness could be looked otherwise.

Reading an author's Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience.

Perhaps it was the spell, in its years of living in Rincewind's head, that affected his eyes. Perhaps his time with Twoflower, who only saw things as they ought to be, had taught him to see things as they are.

Personally I do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of 'women and science' is entirely irrelevant. Either a woman is a good scientist, or she is not; in any case she should be given opportunities, and her work should be studied from the scientific, not the sex, point of view

Reading is like riding through a tunnel and coming out with a new landscape...

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view.

Scholars in a great many disciplines focus their studies on human beings. The main differences between the disciplines are not the objects of their study nor even the methods they use, but the points of view that guide their inquiries.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world. Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So of course eventually I bristled at the questions themselves. They seemed to stem from an obsessive political correctness that wished to brand every Western photographer working in Asia as a neo-colonialist, an ethnographer, or a culprit secretly advancing a hegemonic agenda. The idea that people of one culture cannot create valid art in another I found ludicrous and restrictive to say the least.

Since one never can absolutely know another, as this would mean knowledge of every particular thought and feeling; since we must rather form a conception of a personal unity out of the fragments of another person in which alone he is accessible to us, the unity so formed necessarily depends upon that portion of the Other which our standpoint toward him permits us to see.

Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people on one planet eat a certain kind of food they're hungry for, that makes them feel better after they eat it, that doesn't mean people on other planets shouldn't eat something else. On some planets I'm sure there are people who eat stones, and then feel wonderful for a little while afterwords. Then it's time to eat stones again.

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view.

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

The careful reader, and even the careless reader who's had a few too many drinks, will notice that the Point of View is not all male. You'll see plenty of male nakedness here, and the women are not the rocket-breasted, uber-sexualized portrayals of women that comics often offer.

The frame, the definition, is a type of context. And context, as we said before, determines the meaning of things. There is no such thing as the view from nowhere, or from everywhere for that matter. Our point of view biases our observation, consciously and unconsciously. You cannot understand the view without the point of view.

The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.

The opinions of others are important. They are the yardstick by which we measure our perspective on the world.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

The Christian should be characterized by an effort to see things in the best light; if it is true that the word Evangelos means good news, then Christian means happy man, spreader of happiness. 'Grim faces,' Saint Philip Neri used to say, 'are not made for the merry house of Paradise!

The report made them out to be monsters, although there was another untold side to the story, their side. It did not matter. Their side would probably never be told.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

The sunlight could not quite dispel the difference in atmosphere now that she had seen the interior of the garden. It was as if a dark underside had been revealed that changed the cast of the whole property. But the whimsy of it, the way the eye was drawn down through every vista, the inventiveness, the fairy-tale quality, the melancholy of the lost gardens- it all excited her.

The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that. Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest.

To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

Understanding is not absolutely final. What's now right could be wrong later.

We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective.

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.

Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?

The wise man is the one who can look at everything both with his own eyes and from the eyes of everything else!

When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...

When we are ignorant, we see the world from our point of view and expect the world to behave according to our perception. When we are wise, we see ourselves as part of the world, and we try to fit into the world.

When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him, a glimmer and a glint over those eyes, he knew how the world worked, and took pleasure in its wickedness. He would give a dime or two to those sitting on the street, he would tell them things like: "It won't get any better," and "Might as well use this to buy your next fix," and finally "It's better to die high than to live sober," His suit was pressed nicely, with care and respect, like the kind a corpse wears, he'd say that was his way of honoring the dead, of always being ready for the oncoming train, I liked him, he never wore a fake smile and he was always ready to tell a story about how and when "We all wake up alone," he said once, "Oftentimes even when sleeping next to someone, we wake up before them and they are still asleep and suddenly we are awake, and alone." I didn't see him for a few days, a few days later it felt like it'd been weeks, those weeks drifted apart from one another, like leaves on a pond's surface, and became like months. And then I saw him and I asked him where he'd been, he said, "I woke up alone one day, just like any other, and I decided I didn't like it anymore.

Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.

When you start thinking from other’s point of view, you will understand him more easily and more completely.

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

Why are our people going out there,” said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild. Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and … additional wealth I na new land,” said Lord Vetinari. “What’s in it for the Klatchians?” said Lord Downey. “Oh, they’ve gone out there because they are a bunch of unprincipled opportunists always ready to grab something for northern,” said Lord Vetinari. “A mastery summation, if I may say so, my lord,” said Mr. Burleigh. The Patrician looked down again at his notes. “Oh, I do beg your pardon, I seem to have read those last to sentences in the wrong order…

You might want to consider the whole thing from a man’s perspective. One’s own point of view, Rosemary, is inevitably limited.

You can't do clear observation if you ain't in the field. You can't be a pure observer if you're now in the field.

As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

You think you know something until the day you are different.

...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.