Quotes About Standpoint

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing?

Truth, in other words, was a matter of perspective.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I'll say this: I think from a directing standpoint, 'Loving' is my most accomplished film. Strictly from a technical, directing point of view.

As a person who has looked at the world from both the left and the right sides, I can honestly say the world looks much different depending on which side you are on.

All of us had a view from somewhere

You know, this entire industry, and its not just this industry, it's most people in media, come from one point of view. One. And I am making you a promise on that one. And there is one of me, and they can't stand that there is one dissenting voice. They can only indict my motives.

I really don't like watching women fights.

Whoever has the best take is what matters. My challenge is finding the best take, and it'll always be that.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

Everything depends upon how one is placed.

We all got our reasons...good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference.

The problem is that in Ireland everybody thinks you have to have a 'take' on something. But if you have a 'take' on something then that's a spoof.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Not every line of Hamlet is a jewel. nor every square inch of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling worthy of admiring gasps.

A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.

Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

The fundamental belief of CoreCause is to focus on a preventative rather than recovery stand point. Most of the worlds crises are the effects of a 'core cause' that if addressed would solve the problem entirely.