Quotes About Vantage

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling through space, missing the stars by inches.

For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet, towards men, are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be, without power and place, as the vantage, and commanding ground.

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

All those who have vantage points in their spirit... ; all those who are masters of their language; all those for whom words have a meaning; all those for whom there exist sublimities in the soul and currents of thought; all those who are the spirit of the times, and have named these currents of thought -- and I am thinking of their precise works, of that automatic grinding that delivers their spirit to the winds -- are pigs.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so

From a distance, people observed. Such a thing was easier from far away.

A resident has a distinctive vantage on medicine. You are an insider, seeing everything and a part of everything; yet at the same time you see it anew.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

Where we stand depends on where we sit.

That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it—that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.

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The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominos falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

view from everyone on the main floor. My

It was difficult to imagine anyone besting him on the water, or anywhere else for that matter. He was powerful and unstoppable, and from her vantage point, he was the force to be reckoned with. Especially when it came to that infuriatingly stubborn spark of desire in her heart, which simply would not die, no matter how hard or how long she tried to snuff it out.

The bigger the hill you climb, The more you can see from the top, The more you enjoy the ride down, And the longer the ride lasts.

All right.First, find me a cliff" "That,will it give you a vantage to see the area?" "No," said Kaladin. "It will give me something to throw you off of

You want me to lead the caravan?" "Instructions will be acceptable." "All right. First, find a cliff." "That, it will give you a vantage to see the area?" "No," Kaladin said. "It will give me something to throw you off of.

The ability to manipulate the environment thoughtfully provides the capacity to shift our vantage point, to hover above the timeline and contemplate what was and imagine what will be.

As in all callings, poetry secures a kind of ecstasis. There may be a wiser vantage, but we haven't discovered one yet. Perception leads to further perception. Perceive. Perceive. "See what the grass would see if it had eyes," writes Oppen.

You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.