Quotes About Viewpoint

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

diagnosing a system just for the sake of diagnosis is not very helpful because in any complex system one can diagnose it from multiple points of view, just as a personality can be diagnosed from many points of view.

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Terrific or terrifying, depending on your point of view.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Ford Madox Ford

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

I like jumping to perspectives that aren't necessarily part of our characters, like suddenly you're in a window, looking from someone's house.

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

The problem, however, is obvious: we all operate on limited information based on where we stand relative to the challenges we face. As a result, we rarely see the whole picture, relying instead on just our own bias and restricted point of view. Going

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

Tão certo é que a paisagem depende do ponto de vista, e que o melhor modo de apreciar o chicote é ter-lhe o cabo na mão.

Success is never a place but a perspective.

Era talvez meu hábito 'profissional' de colocar-me no lugar, ou na pele, dos outros. Isso não significa que sempre justifico esses outros, mas que tenho a capacidade de enxergar seus pontos de vista p. 95.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

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