Point Of View Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

  Manuel Puig

  Views, Needs, Literature

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• I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

  Sun Ra

  Views, People, Pure

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• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

  Garth Stein

  Art, Book, Inspiration

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• I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

  George Voinovich

  Country, Views, People

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• From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Views

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• Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Views

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• Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

  Edwin Morgan

  Thinking, Views, People

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• You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

  Tommy Mottola

  Artist, Views, Understanding

  "Interview With Tommy Mottola, Music Industry Legend and Author of Hitmaker". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Thinking, Views

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• My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.

  Michele Bachmann

  Views, Healthy, Brain

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• Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Views

  Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”

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• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Struggle, Loss, Ukraine

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• From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.

  Gyorgy Lukacs

  Responsibility, Fate, Thinking

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• From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air is cold, skies are gray, but usually the final mark of punctuation to the year as yet to arrive - the snow; snow that covers all in the garden and marks a mind-set for the end of a year's activity. There is little to do outside except to wait for longer days in the new year and the joys of coming holidays.

  H. Peter Loewer

  New Year, Holiday, Garden

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• 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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• It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Artist, Views, Want

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• From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Science, Views

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Cheer, Mean

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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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• From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Views, Appreciate

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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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• Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

  George Orwell

  Views, Hypocrisy, Behaviour

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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