Quotes About Viewpoint

#1. We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy.

Geoffrey West

#2. Mr. John Coleman, who invented the Weather Channel, represents over 30,000 scientists who cannot get their voices heard on the main stream media, since they hold a viewpoint on Global Warming that runs opposite to the government and media template. The voices of reason are being suppressed.

Peter DeGraaf

#3. If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

Georges Bataille

#4. The subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

Carolyn Wells

#5. The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

Terry Eagleton

#6. Foreword of my book: The Pawn
"It is being said that time and space could be tied to their creator's stance of what they are to him or her. It can possibly be perceived by those who become the receivers of this viewpoint as something different or the same." (Claire Manning Writer/Author 2016)

Claire Hamelin Manning

#7. I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.

Scott Bradfield

#9. We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Asif Kapadia

#10. Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.

David Lloyd

#11. From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.

David P. Ellerman

#12. The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin ... Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

Anthony De Mello

#13. Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.

Mary Ruwart

#14. Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

Alex Flinn

#15. Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye ...

Georges Braque

#16. From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

Monica Crowley

#18. You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Margaret Atwood

#19. From a young boy's viewpoint this could not get any worse, especially when you were told that you belonged to the devil, and this bullying of me went on for a long time.

Stephen Richards

#20. If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

Todd Rundgren

#21. It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.

Mike Romano

#22. Don't be afraid of developing a contrarian viewpoint on what type of person is perfect for your company as CTO and how you're going to find that person.

Mariam Naficy

#23. I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Conor Oberst

#24. I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Bianca Jagger

#25. Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.

Michael Ruse

#26. In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed ... We are to run it with patience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#27. The viewpoint of the government is that the people must have full access to all information worldwide.

Hassan Rouhani

#28. From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#29. My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Robert Frank

#30. I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

Alex Flinn

#31. Whether particular people with the capacity to take an objective point of view actually do take this objective viewpoint into account when they act will depend on the strength of their desire to avoid inconsistency between the way they reason publicly and the way they act.

Peter Singer

#32. I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#33. My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

Mo Brooks

#34. Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Gates McFadden

#35. Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.

Clifford D. Simak

#36. Viewpoint is everything. You can only see what you are prepared to see," by Scree, in The Dragon Dreamer

J.S. Burke

#37. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

Harry S. Truman

#38. There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Emmanuel Teney

#39. We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people

Hillary Clinton

#40. When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

George R R Martin

#41. I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

George R R Martin

#42. The connection between religious faith and mental disorder is, from the viewpoint of the tolerant and the "multicultural," both very obvious and highly unmentionable.

Christopher Hitchens

#43. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life - whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook).

Elizabeth Gilbert

#44. When judging modernity, it is all too tempting to take the viewpoint of a twenty-first-century middle-class Westerner. We must not forget the viewpoints of a nineteenth-century Welsh coal miner, Chinese opium addict or Tasmanian Aborigine. Truganini is no less important than Homer Simpson.

Yuval Noah Harari

#45. I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#46. People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly ... time-y wimey ... stuff.

Steven Moffat

#47. Quite so, quite so," agreed the Viscount inconsistently, not from any want of intelligence but rather from the habit he had formed of naturally deferring to his wife's viewpoint, since she would listen to none but her own.

Rachel Carter

#48. To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

Lilian Jackson Braun

#49. Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

Dale Carnegie

#50. Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Don Henley

#51. How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

Vernor Vinge

#52. I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

Eddie Vedder

#53. Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

James Ellroy

#54. The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

David Limbaugh

#55. People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the 'Homeland' audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world - and it's their job.

Martin Donovan

#56. I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided ...

Richard M. Nixon

#57. Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.

Norman Rockwell

#58. All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.

Anatoly Rybakov

#59. The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.

Richard Corliss

#60. You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.

Chris Murray

#61. Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

James A.C. Brown

#62. The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.

Edgar Alwin Payne

#63. The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.

Anne Tyler

#64. If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

William S. Burroughs

#65. In a balanced viewpoint that includes both masculine and feminine perspective, healing is seen not as a technique, but as a process.

Jeanne Achterberg

#66. Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

Robert Sheckley

#67. When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.

Edward Weston

#68. Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Richard Rohr

#69. Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.

Dada Bhagwan

#70. The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

Henry Ford

#71. You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Michael Sheen

#72. The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.

Sri Aurobindo

#73. Considering what is at stake politically, economically and technically for most organizations; usually justifying IT governance deployment based on one viewpoint narrows suitability and expected benefits.

Robert E. Davis

#74. It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.

Alfred Wegener

#75. I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.

Amy Adams

#76. It took me years and cost me countless thousands of dollars in lost business before I finally learned that it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Dale Carnegie

#77. No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#78. I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

James Hillman

#79. The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

David J. Lieberman

#80. I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.

Whitfield Diffie

#81. God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things ... In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

Corrie Ten Boom

#82. Would eternity feel like a long time, or were all lives - from a personal viewpoint - entirely the same length?

Terry Pratchett

#83. Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

Garth Nix

#84. Faith is a viewpoint? That sounds strange coming from the lips of a priest.

James Targett

#85. The Vedic viewpoint presents a type of linguistic realism in which reality is the 'text' which is being processed by the observer. Reality can also be modified by adding text to it similar to how a programmer programs a computer by inputting a computer program.

Ashish Dalela

#86. Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#87. I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my viewpoint. If it was Lady Gaga, I'd say: 'You're talented, and you've obviously got the goods ... what the hell are you doing with your image? How can anyone take you serious?'

Suzi Quatro

#88. Today, religious fanatics and scientific rejectionists flourish under the protective wing of postmodernism, claiming that theirs is just one more valid viewpoint - a form of mental aikido (using the opponent's strength against him).

Gudjon Bergmann

#89. From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.

Stanley Coren

#90. The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.

John Sparkman

#91. Diels told the reporters, The value of the SA and the SS, seen from my viewpoint of inspector-general responsible for the suppression of subversive tendencies and activities, lies in the fact that they spread terror. That is a wholesome thing.

Erik Larson

#92. No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

Harry S. Truman

#93. As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

Norman Lock

#94. From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

Carl Jung

#95. I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#96. It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

Neve McIntosh

#97. The next time someone asks for your opinion, and you know it's contrary to that person's viewpoint, take the risk of putting your perspective on the table rather than taking the path of least resistance by agreeing or saying you have no opinion.

Lois P Frankel

#98. What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure" possible!

Philip K. Chapman

#99. Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

Silvano Arieti

#100. In spite of the enormous complexity of macroscopic bodies when viewed from an atomistic viewpoint, one knows from everyday experience as well as from precision experiments that macroscopic bodies obey quite definite laws.

Franz Mandl