Quotes About Viewpoint

One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees the dirty window

We figure that's their

By understanding how the same scene can appear different, depending on the viewpoint from which it is perceived, we learn to separate the accidents of viewpoint from the properties of the thing itself. By treating subjectivity objectively, we master it.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

I am a big pro-choice guy.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

Just knowing the game of basketball, it's important to be able to see it from a different perspective, not only offensively but also defensively.

Not everyone agrees. If you disagree with me, I want you to tell me, and I'm going to come back and tell you why it's my opinion.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so," wrote Shakespeare. For example:

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

It was a singular point of view that made all the difference over a lifetime.

The task is rather to assess whether and to what degree works are Christian in their viewpoint. Christian enthusiasts for literature too often seek to baptize every work of literature that they love.

The Nazis took over the essence of each side in the German debate and proudly offered the synthesis as one unified viewpoint. The synthesis is: national socialism.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes.

Small ones too, Mma Sometimes big problems are really tiny ones when you look at them in the right way.

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.