Quotes About Point Of Reference

#1. Enlightenment is when there is no personal self, only the Creative Self, which is universal and impersonal in nature. It is when the personal self or personality is no longer the point of reference, but rather it becomes a tool to realize the True Self and to do its Creative Will.

David Cherubim

#2. You showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.

Sylvia Day

#3. Jesus, the Word incarnate, is always the center of our announcement, the point of reference for our evangelizing mission and for its methodology, because He is the human face of God, who wishes to meet all men and women so as to bring them into communion with Him, in His love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. To acquire a new perspective we must change our point of reference.

Ted Agon

#5. It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

Catherine Tate

#6. He simply shook his head. 'If your point of reference is a glimpse you've caught of a business transaction conducted in an alley, I'd venture that you have no idea what I can do with a wall.

Courtney Milan

#7. The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.

Philip Kitcher

#8. A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

Andre Holland

#9. The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Carlos Castaneda

#10. While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Herbie Hancock

#11. For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

Max Von Laue

#12. It is essential to consider as a constant point of reference in this essay the regular hiatus between what we fancy we know and what we really know, practical assent and simulated ignorance which allows us to live with ideas which, if we truly put them to the test, ought to upset our whole life.

Albert Camus

#13. The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

Lorin Maazel

#14. In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#15. Life without God is ultimately life without any point of reference for meaning other than what one gives it at the time.

Ravi Zacharias

#16. The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Antony Beevor

#17. My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

Lupita Nyong'o

#18. My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

Howie Mandel

#19. Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

Lewis Mumford

#20. We're all from the past and we're all from the future, depending on the point of reference.

Cuthbert Soup

#21. As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Marcus Aurelius

#22. It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]

Shirley Hazzard

#23. We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential.
... if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

Andy Stanley

#24. The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

Simon Conway Morris

#25. I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature ... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

Philip Pearlstein

#26. Real communication occurs ... when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person's point of view, to sense how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about.

Carl Rogers

#27. How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

Antonio Damasio

#28. Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible.

Billy Graham

#29. I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

Antony Beevor

#30. When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

Deepak Chopra

#31. I think she by this point has learned that Stark's not specifically responsible for her parents' death - that it's more something that has to do with him stopping ... I think there's even a reference to him stopping his selling of weapons because they cause damage.

Elizabeth Olsen

#32. The reference point argument is as follows: do not compute odds from the vantage point of the winning gambler (or the lucky Casanova, or the endlessly bouncing back New York City, or the invincible Carthage), but from all those who started in the cohort. Consider

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

Ann Coulter

#34. As a pure source of reference, 'Modernist Cuisine' is incredibly helpful. It's like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It's not always the answer, but it's always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it.

Wylie Dufresne

#35. There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action.

Thiruman Archunan

#36. Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Corinne Maier

#37. For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

Elliott Abrams

#38. If you need a reference point, she was created in a grandma lab somewhere by crossing the DNA of Mary Poppins, Jack Black, Julia Child and Desmond Tutu.

Scott Dannemiller

#39. For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

Wadah Khanfar

#40. In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

Gary Gach

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#42. What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

Thomas Ligotti

#43. I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

Yann Martel

#44. God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Rick Warren

#45. You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security ... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed ...

Chogyam Trungpa

#46. It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton