Quotes About Viewpoint

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

La diferencia entre un crimen y una hazaña suele depender de la perspectiva del observador

que inventen ellos, que nosotros opinaremos. Unamuno

Tonterías lo son todo en esta vida. Es simplemente una cuestión de perspectiva.

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

The destructive element exists in all art, but ultimately is determined only by the ideas of the viewer.

Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing--a focus upon object A involves a neglect of object B.

I guess no one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

Irene generally disliked debating philosophy or being told that answers were true 'from a certain point of view'.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

History always tries to understand the meaning of the events it reports; and the fact that a person has a viewpoint does not mean that person is a poor historian and distorts facts to support his or her interpretation.

Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but I was right and they were wrong and that made the difference.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.