Point Of View Quotes - Page 11

• But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.

  Damien Hirst

  Fall, Glasses, Sheep

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• From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Views

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

  Henry James

  Art, Views, Genius

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• As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for younger workers that would make sure those younger workers receive benefits equal to or greater than that which is expected, ... I still maintain the same position.

  George H. W. Bush

  Views, Campaigns, Saving

  "Democratic candidates blast Greenspan comments". www.cnn.com. February 25, 2004.

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• What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Beautiful, Art, Views

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• It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Views, Luck

  The Dalai Lama (2001). “Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists”, p.108, Shambhala

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• It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

  Carey Mulligan

  Book, Character, Views

  Source: collider.com

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• As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Views

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• 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

  Brother, Government, Moral Judgement

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• All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

  Marisha Pessl

  Believe, Character, Writing

  "Off the Page: Marisha Pessl". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2006.

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fall, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they want Hollywood endings that tie everything together in the end and answer all of the questions. They are usually people on one extreme of the political spectrum or other and they haven't been happy because the film is not polemical enough on their side. They aren't usually people who aren't interested in understanding points of view that they disagree with - they just want to attack their opponents - and I'm ok with them not liking the film.

  Marshall Curry

  People, Political, Understanding

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• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  Dan Farmer

  Mass Destruction, Views, Academic

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• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.

  Hal Abelson

  Taken, Learning, Thinking

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• My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.

  James Ensor

  Art, Views, Painting

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• Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Teacher, Views, Hygiene

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• Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Mirrors, Views

  "The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics". Book by John Brinckerhoff Jackson, p. 4, 1980.

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• Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Wisdom, Simple

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Great Lives: Job: A Man of Heroic Endurance”, p.547, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

  William D. Hoard

  Views, Ideas, Progress

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• To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Men, Views

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let it stand there. Who is having big debates with the Islamic people about it (gay rights)? Who is telling them to bend their laws? If your laws are based on your Christian points of view, then you must stand your ground?

  Bishop Noel Jones

  Christian, Islamic, Gay

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• There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Spring, War

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• Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity.

  Hideo Kojima

  Passion, Views, Ideas

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• Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

  Norman Lamm

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

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