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Quotes About Angle

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
~ Johan Huizinga
Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.
~ Benjamin Cohen
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
~ Carl Jung
Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Even in death, however, its neighbors had tried to support it, keeping it from the ignominy of the ground, holding it in the grip of their tangled branches so that it lay at an angle of thirty degrees to the horizontal, seemingly supported between heaven and earth by its closely packed fellows.
~ John Flanagan
I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Al encuentro de alguien —respondió enigmático—. A buscar la piedra que el Gran Arquitecto rechazó, y que es la maestra del ángulo; la base de la obra filosófica.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.
~ Barry Diller
When you act you realise acting is not that difficult - the other technicalities are, like the mark, angle, light, etc. So you just not have to memorise your lines but keep in mind the mark, the angle and light. It is difficult.
~ Badshah
If you are angle, I am complement. If you are circle, I am circumscribed.
~ Samuel R. Delany
For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his work, but the geometer inquires into what, or what sort of things, the right angle is, since he studies the truth. We must do the same, then in other areas too, [seeking the proper degree of exactness], so that digressions do not overwhelm our main task.
~ Aristotle
No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.
~ Shirley Jackson
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.
~ Shirley Jackson
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship;
~ Shirley Jackson
o Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.
~ Shirley Jackson
Eddie Fislinger's church was an octagonal affair, with the pulpit in one angle, an arrangement which produced a fascinating, rather dizzy effect, reminiscent of the doctrine of predestination.
~ Sinclair Lewis
It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.
~ John Piper
More like I dreamed it. More like I zoned out in the movie as a form of self-defense, and in that zoned-out state I worked up this grand story for how your father, he killed your mother, Sheel, really, serious, I solved the case. Also, there is a case. As proof, of course, I could take a can from the pantry, it doesn't matter what, and mess with its angle in the can opener until it leaves sharp little slivers of metal behind. At
~ Ellen Datlow
In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.
~ Tobias Lindholm
The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another.
~ George Orwell
The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters.
~ Atul Gawande
A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.
~ Stephen Fry
To change your perspective, you have to change your perspective.
~ Kelley Hazen