Quotes About Viewpoint

Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias.

I can only write from a man's viewpoint.

Exposure to fields like design to technology and from art to psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world.

I believe if the players and coaches respect my viewpoint of the game, then fans will as well. And full credit there goes to the NBA and to ESPN. They are willing to put people like me in a position to do this.

My parents are conservatives. Owning a small business lent itself to that viewpoint.

I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.

You couldn't argue the facts; you could only change the lens through which you looked at them.

Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.

You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist.

invariably the character with the strongest, clearest goal motivation going in. To say this a different way: The goal that starts a scene ordinarily should be stated by the story person who is to be the viewpoint character in that scene. And once this viewpoint has been established, you will be wise to stay in that viewpoint at least through the disaster ending the scene.

If you don't want to be caught unaware by the future, lose your perspective because everyone from existing and future customers to your current and would-be competitors is likely viewing things from a perspective different than your own.

Rather than take God at his word, they just looked at the difficulties. Rather than doubt their own viewpoint, they doubted God's.