Point Of View Quotes - Page 33

• Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place of birth. It made it more organic inside of me, because it placed me in a position where my job was to understand and to become more African.

  Forest Whitaker

  Jobs, Views, Colonialism

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Believe, Views, Choices

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Self, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view.

  Craig Ferguson

  Views, Drunk, Terrible

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• I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

  Doug Stanhope

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter Mcgraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.

  Eugene Mirman

  Jobs, Thinking, Views

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• Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

  Maria Popova

  Views, Pieces, Patterns

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• I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.

  Brad Stine

  Hate, Views, Taught

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• From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.

  Tom Cullen

  Animal, Views, Roles

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

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• I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

  Lewis Baltz

  Photography, Art, Views

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• I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.

  Luc Delahaye

  Distance, Heart, Views

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• What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Photography, Art, Views

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• I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

  Saul Leiter

  Views, Numbers, Photographer

  "Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast". Interview with Dean Brierly, photographyinterviews.blogspot.com. April 22, 2009.

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• When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.

  Zoe Leonard

  Believe, Views, People

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• You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What is my image? To be a successful photographer, you have to have a unique point of view otherwise you'll get lost in the mix.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Believe, Successful, Unique

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• I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

  Glenn Beck

  Views, Libertarian, Tables

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• We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Acceptance, Views

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• I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Views, Style

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• If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

  Lou Reed

  Horse, Views, Experts

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• It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.

  Nick Minchin

  Views, Policy Making, Dubious

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• Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive."

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Views, Order, Interesting

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• Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Views, Media, Should Have

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• When we are clear enough about our own point of view, we can find help in the methods of Eastern Christianity or in the ways of the Far East, perhaps by consulting the I Ching or through mandala contemplation; we may even find help in the ways of shamanism or Islam. If we are clear about where we stand and the direction we must take, such methods may be useful in order to follow our own way to the end.

  Morton T. Kelsey

  Views, Order, Islam

  Morton T. Kelsey (1997). “The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century”, p.155, Paulist Press

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• With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard to create an infrastructure of those who shared their point of view and were prepared to take over the countries.

  Paul Nitze

  Country, Views, Unions

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• I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.

  Jane Smiley

  Strong, Sex, Fun

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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