Through The Lens Quotes

#1. When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.

Elizabeth George

#2. The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

Francine Prose

#4. When we begin to view our experiences through the lens of gratitude, our heart, mind and spirit naturally expand.

David Brown Jr.

#5. Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Sara Sheridan

#6. Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.

Karen Joy Fowler

#7. Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

John Sculley

#8. Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.

Dara Horn

#9. Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.

Stephen Colbert

#10. Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.

Liz Goldwyn

#11. Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

Martha Beck

#12. The Bible does tell us who we are and what we should do, but it does so through the lens of who God is. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of self always go hand in hand.

Jen Wilkin

#13. I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.

Marcus Samuelsson

#14. I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.

Carol Berg

#15. Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

Alison Jackson

#16. It is not that mindfulness is the "answer" to all life's problems. Rather, it is that all life's problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#17. Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#18. We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

Robert Greene

#19. We sometimes cannot conceive of how the new paradigm could be true or see the reasons to reject an old paradigm until we have started looking at the world through the lens of the new paradigm.

Angus J.L. Menuge

#20. Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.

Ann Patchett

#21. we don't always understand what happens to us or why, but if we could see through the lens of eternity, we'd weep with joy.

Victoria Bylin

#22. You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

Jonathan Lethem

#23. I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous ... The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

Terence McKenna

#24. Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

Walter Kirn

#25. ...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#26. Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family.

Ross Parsley

#27. If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Alison Jackson

#28. The science is clear: if psi exists, the most reliable way to see it is through the lens of statistics. As a result, believers should stop and think before ever consulting a psychic.

Steve Volk

#29. Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.

Dallin H. Oaks

#30. In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.

Emma Stone

#31. Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.

John Mackey

#32. She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there.

Karen Thompson Walker

#33. I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

Jesse Johnson

#34. The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

Wade Davis

#35. I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

#36. When a person looks through a colored lens, everything seems to be that color. If the lens is tinted yellow or blue, everything seems yellow or blue. A person who looks at life through the lens of gratitude will always find things to be grateful for.

Zelig Pliskin

#37. I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.

John Darnielle

#38. The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

Philip Zaleski

#39. The experience of drowning, through the lens of faith, is what Christians call "baptism." But no matter what you call it, the sensation of going under is entirely the same.

Jonathan Martin

#40. Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

James E. Faust

#41. When you view yourself through the lens of God's Word, you will better understand God's love for you and the worth you have in His eyes.

Elizabeth George

#42. We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#43. If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved.

Sonia Choquette

#44. Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.

Melanie Rae Thon

#45. All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

C.J. Mahaney

#46. The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices.

Paul La Farge

#47. Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.

Bryant McGill

#48. Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.

Mick Ebeling

#49. It's easy to step back and see something through the lens of personal bias.

Karen Kingsbury

#50. It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

Tipper Gore

#51. Unless you're able to look at marriage through the lens of Scripture instead of through your own fears or romanticism, through your particular experience, or through your culture's narrow perspectives, you won't be able to make intelligent decisions about your own marital future.

Timothy Keller

#52. I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

Gordon Gee

#53. When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

Jay Nichols

#54. Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.

Bryant McGill

#55. Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

Ian K. Smith

#56. Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

Matisyahu

#57. When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

Stephen Covey

#58. We can either approach Jiu Jitsu through the lens of the "real world" or we can approach the real world through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have found the latter to be far more rewarding.

Chris Matakas

#59. He struggles to make sense of it
all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens ...

M.L. Stedman

#60. We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past.

Kate Morton

#61. I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers.

Elliot Ackerman

#62. The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

Howard Schultz

#63. We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.

Tariq Ramadan

#64. In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

Kate Christensen

#65. Viewing ecology through the lens of individual life histories or the life cycles of species makes it easy to grasp the Hindu conception of life as drama. Every creature and plant has a separate path of sustenance and survival on the way to their final dance with Shiva.

Richard J. Borden

#66. When I can see things through the lens of the director, it's like being able to see the whole puzzle - it's not just about my role, but the whole script.

Justin Baldoni

#67. Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

Alex Steffen

#68. People have forgotten to use their memories. They look at life through the lens of a camera or the screen of a cell phone instead of remembering how it looks, how it smells

Jamie McGuire

#69. Most of us have a lot more experience being consumers than producers, so we tend to view things through the lens of demand rather than supply.

Steven D. Levitt

#70. Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

M. Russell Ballard

#71. It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Sarah Miller

#72. There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Terry Pratchett

#73. We no longer view the world through the dim mist of justice and reward, but through the bright lens of resurrection, where suffering leads to glory and slaughtered lambs rule the earth.

Preston Sprinkle

#74. If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Sivananda

#75. Maybe it is in the nature of those who are denied sex or do not have enough of it to be so preoccupied with the subject that they view everything else through its distorted lens. "What

Nuruddin Farah

#76. We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

David Warlick

#77. The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

Craig Groeschel

#78. Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. "I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens," says Ingrid LaFleur, an art curator and Afrofuturist.

Ytasha L. Womack

#79. Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

Franz Kafka

#80. Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color - it's a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown ... I've tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

Sylvia Plath

#81. The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

James MacDonald

#82. Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.

Jon Foreman

#83. By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.

Isolde Standish

#84. I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

Adrienne Rich

#85. Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition ... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know ...

Alton Tobey

#86. Don't you know? There's no such thing as the truth.' Oliver yawned. 'We all walk around trapped in our own subjective consciousness, experiencing the same events through a totally different lens.

Abigail Haas

#87. I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to ... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Andre Agassi

#88. Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Bryant H. McGill

#89. Can anyone ever see the world in any other way but through their own personal lens?

Melissa C. Walker

#90. Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#91. For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary.

Brene Brown

#92. Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Dan Colen

#93. The walls of the rational, empirical world are famously porous. What come through are dreams, imaginings, inspirations, visions, revelations. There is no use in stooping over these with a magnifying lens.

Wendell Berry

#94. A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Ann Hood

#95. Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

Abraham Verghese

#96. Time is the very lens through which ye see
small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope
something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

C.S. Lewis

#97. It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

Ville Valo

#98. The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

Christian Wiman

#99. When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Tori Amos

#100. I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

Molly Antopol