Point Of View Quotes - Page 11

• All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Views, People

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Distance, Thinking, Views

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• I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

  George Voinovich

  Country, Views, People

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• From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Views

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• A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Encouragement, Optimistic, Adversity

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• As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Views

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• I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.

  Lois Lowry

  Religious, Book, Writing

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• I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

  Steven Levitan

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

  Edwin Morgan

  Thinking, Views, People

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• You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

  Tommy Mottola

  Artist, Views, Understanding

  "Interview With Tommy Mottola, Music Industry Legend and Author of Hitmaker". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

  Dick Morris

  Communication, Thinking, Views

  "Profiting from politics" by Elizabeth Wasserman, www.cnn.com. November 19, 1999.

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• I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Thinking, Views

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• My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.

  Michele Bachmann

  Views, Healthy, Brain

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• Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Views

  Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”

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• The Dark Knight series is all from Batman's point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you'll see a Superman who's much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? They're not people. They're only lines on paper.

  Frank Miller

  Dark, Knights, Views

  "20Q: Frank Miller". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. August 21, 2014.

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• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Struggle, Loss, Ukraine

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• What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Beautiful, Art, Views

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• The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

  Chris Hardwick

  Views, Voice, Goal

  "Crafting a joke: the arc of an act" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.

  Gyorgy Lukacs

  Responsibility, Fate, Thinking

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• The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.

  Alex Zanardi

  Views, Perfect, Bumps

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• When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

  Seth Gordon

  Views, Order, Done

  "Kenya to 'Christmases' for Seth Gordon" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2008.

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• It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

  Rico Love

  Song, Fun, Ideas

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• It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Artist, Views, Want

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