Point Of View Quotes

• From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberty
  • Point Of View
  • Sovereignty

• I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Reason
  • Bible
  • Views

• Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Progress
  • Point Of View

• A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Purpose
  • Horse
  • Point Of View

• Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Different
  • Real
  • Sometimes

• Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view

  

  Lori Singer
  • God
  • Reality
  • Views

• The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.

  

  Bill Kovach
  • Work
  • No Doubt
  • Allegiance

• 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.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Different
  • Success
  • Depression

• From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.

  

  Iveta Radicova
  • Country
  • Debt
  • Point Of View

• Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Perspective
  • Point Of View

• It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

  

  Nicholas Kroll
  • Character
  • Point Of View
  • Figure

• As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

  

  Bono U2
  • Believe
  • Ego
  • Musician

• Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Appreciate
  • Ways
  • Dogs

• The film The Conquest will be seen on many different levels and the American point of view is always more technical. The French are less technical - it's 'I like it, or I don't like it.' I hope that this film can have a life in the U.S. - it's the grand country of cinema. I grew up with Hollywood movies, so for a French director to have a film distributed in the U.S. is a real opportunity.

  

  Xavier Durringer
  • Opportunity
  • Cinema
  • I Hope

• My character in Ted Bundy was unaware of all the murders that were being committed by him, so I kind of tried to keep myself out of it and kind of keep an innocent point of view from it. The hard scenes for me were the sex scenes just because there's like sexual deviance going on and there was stuff that he want her to do and that was really disturbing.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Character
  • Innocent
  • Murders

• Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

  

  Barney Chavous
  • Picture
  • Chess
  • Strategy

• Engineers start with technology and look for a use for it; business people start with a business proposition and then look for the technology and the people. Designers start with people, coming towards a solution from the point of view of people.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Engineers

• Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Knowledge
  • Result
  • Phenomena

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

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Views
  • Skills
  • Point Of View

• Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Knowledge
  • Point Of View
  • Misunderstandings

• The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Passion
  • Practice
  • Chaos

• It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Blind
  • Views
  • Point Of View

• Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Talent
  • Stranger
  • Divorced

• The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.

  

  Walter Weyl
  • Law
  • Change
  • Government

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