Point Of View Quotes - Page 32

• Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.

  George Carlin

  Real, Views, Cynicism

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

  Margaret Mead

  Views, Vision, Culture

  Margaret Mead, Paul Byers (1968). “The small conference: An innovation in communication”, p.6, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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• Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.

  Henry James

  Views, Interesting, Glimpse

  Henry James (1980). “Letters”, p.257, Harvard University Press

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• The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same; so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Beautiful, Men, Ideas

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• I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.

  Cathy Freeman

  Children, Views, Government

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• I don't think you can develop or learn a way of seeing or a point of view. A way of seeing is who you are, how you think and how you create images. It is something that is inside of you. It's how you look at the world.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Thinking, Views, World

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• As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

  Tim Allen

  Views, Chinese, Depends

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Views, Media, Political

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• At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Views, Cynical, Concerned

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• It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

  Shirley Williams

  Views, Would Be, Excellent

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• Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

  Joseph Goebbels

  Photography, Views, Play

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• ...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Views, Important, Gave Up

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• I'm a dumb guy. My point of view is limited.

  Hannibal Buress

  Views, Guy, Dumb

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• From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Views

  "Chuck Close's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2007.

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• I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Believe, Views, Individual

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• Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.

  Benny Goodman

  Mean, Learning, Views

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• Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child's universe.

  Alex Abreu

  Children, Eye, Boys

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Beautiful, Flower, Book

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.

  Milton Friedman

  Stress, Believe, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Views, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.

  Julie Davis

  Writing, Views, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment.

  Julie Davis

  Winning, Views, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

  Bryan Fuller

  Race, Views, Different Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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