Point Of View Quotes - Page 27

• Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.

  John Updike

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.

  Paul Kurtz

  Philosophical, Views, Afterlife

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• The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, Views

  Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham (1873). “On War”, London, N. Trübner & Company

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• 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.

  Edward Bernays

  Believe, Views, Differences

  Edward L. Bernays (2015). “Crystallizing Public Opinion”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Acting, Selfishness

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• To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

  Ameen Rihani

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Views, Appreciate

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• From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

  Bill Bryson

  Sex, Views, Rewards

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.375, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is, it could have been far longer had I gone with an omniscient third-person narrator, or multiple point-of-view characters, since either of those would have enabled me to impart much more detailed information about the history and geography of the world.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Character, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him and the story he's telling. Considering how old the world is, we learn very little about its history, which I think is a good thing.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Views, Narrators

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.

  Alice Sebold

  Couple, Mean, Views

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

  Anne Tyler

  Views, Plot, Stories

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. I had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

  Signe Baumane

  Art, Unique, Views

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.

  Nora Ephron

  Writing, Views, Tone

  "In Conversation With A 32-year-old Nora Ephron". Interview With Michael S. Lasky, lithub.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Stress, Views, Feelings

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• History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Simple, Views, Understanding

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• Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

  Cal Thomas

  Views, Speech, Should

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection.

  Andre Siegfried

  Views, Hands, Ideas

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• African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent. Nobody would say that French film is all European film, or Italian film is all European film. And in the same way that those places have different filmmakers that speak to different issues, all the countries in Africa have that too.

  Elvis Mitchell

  Country, Italian, Offering

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.

  Jerusha Hess

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's a different point of view on the world and it's different issues and it's important. It's healthy to have both, and more and more women are becoming of aware of that. And when you are aware of how strong of an impact it has on people - it changes things.

  Nadine Labaki

  Strong, Impact, Views

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.

  Gwen Ifill

  Jobs, Views, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Japan, Views, Years

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Views, Recycling, Environment

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• To me, the fun part of both jobs is to always try to push the discussion and debate forward in some way. The most fun part of being a theater critic for the Times was always to try and champion something that maybe other people didn't like, or that was produced under obscure circumstances or had to fight for its life. And I would say in the column what I try to do is in some ways related in that I'm trying to fight for a point of view. I'm not trying to be a kingmaker in either job, and don't want to be, and shouldn't be.

  Frank Rich

  Jobs, Fun, Fighting

  "The MoJo Interview: Frank Rich". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2008.

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