Quotes About Viewpoint

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

When we discuss a novel it is only partially to hear another person's 'view', it is much more to find out what we ourselves think in order to possess the text more completely. Such a possession is then a composite one, it is the book itself and the articulated reaction to it. So vivid can be the latter that it is not uncommon to find that the pleasure survives the cause; some novels seem more enjoyable to talk about than to read.

These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things. …In the Bible I learned that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us.

People will see whatever they want to see. Parallax.

There's always two ways of looking at things... that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

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

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

Perhaps because the camera reserved judgment.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. —Joe Massino CHAPTER

The moving landscape provides an absorbing diversion which frees the mind & gives us a fresh viewpoint, & we're most at ease with the word when we walk because everything is happening at a manageable pace.

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.