Standpoint Quotes - Page 7

• Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

  Boomer Esiason

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• A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Religious, Art, Giving

  "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.

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• You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Political, Use, Want

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• What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Player, Justice

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• There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Self, Historical

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• Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

  George H. Mead

  Psychology, Phases, Psychological

  "Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George Herbert Mead, 1934.

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• This was an extremely difficult decision as I take great pride in representing our country. I know that I owe it to my USA Basketball teammates to be totally invested in the experience. After going through training camp with USAB, I realized I could not fulfill my responsibilities to the team from both a time and energy standpoint. I need to take a step back and take some time away, both mentally and physically in order to prepare for the upcoming NBA season. I will be rooting for USAB and look forward to future opportunities with them.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Country, Team

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• In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mirrors, World, Location

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Ambition, Russia

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• I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

  Derek Magyar

  Actors, Approach

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• All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

  Simon Newcomb

  Engineering, Aviation, Human Life

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• The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

  Robert Wise

  Pebbles, Film, Sand

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• One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, People, Tasks

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• For the record, this isn’t a male/female thing. It’s a people thing. You talk about men being cold...you should see women from my standpoint. We’re talking the Arctic tundra would be warmer. Believe me, you don’t want to know my vantage point on your gender. As a man, if I grabbed your breasts, I’d be arrested. Any idea how many women have felt free to grab my crotch at will? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Men, Talking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Devil May Cry”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

  Herbie Hancock

  Views, Perspective, Musician

  "Tribute To Miles: A Conversation With Herbie Hancock". Interview With Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Reality, Feminist, African American

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• Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

  Sidney Hook

  Philosophy, Hook, Surveys

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• Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Generations, Might, Enough

  "Orgonotic Pulsation in International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research", Vol. 3, No. 1, March, 1944.

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• War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Differences, Waste

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• My standpoint is armed neutrality.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Neutrality

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• You learn a lot more about all the things that are necessary to be the leader of a team and so there's day-to-day hands-on training that you get and you might not even be asking for it. You try as best you can to be organized, have a plan, know exactly what you want from a schedule standpoint, have an idea of what you would want in a staff.

  Sean Payton

  Team, Hands, Ideas

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• Obviously, we were fortunate to win the hockey game, and we'll take it, because there have been some games that we haven't been fortunate enough in. I don't think we played exceptionally well from any standpoint, other than our first period. And our goaltender really stole the game for us. In all reality, you have to give him credit for the win. He stole the points.

  Randy Carlyle

  Hockey, Thinking, Winning

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• But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more.

  David Bentley Hart

  Fashion, Couple, Philosophical

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• I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

  Cynthia Rowley

  Design, Trying, Looks

  "Cynthia Rowley Does Warhol". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 17, 2010.

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• We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Valleys, Glory, Gods Will

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