Quotes About Viewpoint

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.

There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides.

books are a load of crap

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Every reading is a misreading.

Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

I think perception is important.

An actor's only perception is of their character, and they're looking at one piece. A writer is looking at the entire story. They're going to see things that the writer didn't see because they're only looking through their lens.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

There are two sides to every question.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

To watch a game from the TV, it's very different from the bench.

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

Success is based on your perspective.

Winning is different based on your perspective, just like success is different based on your perspective.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.

I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point of view. One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously.

Hitler wouldn't answer to anybody, not even God. He didn't dialogue. His was a monologue. Dialogue involves reason; it requires a willingness to admit there's another opinion. To him, there was no other viewpoint but his.

Si no quieres que un hombre sea políticamente desgraciado, no lo preocupes mostrándole dos aspectos de una misma cuestión. Muéstrale uno.

Only when people genuinely disagree does tolerance become necessary. Claiming that someone is wrong for holding a different viewpoint, then, isn't itself intolerant; the attitude that accompanies the claim may, however, be intolerant.