Vantage Point Quotes

• Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Life Is Like, Landscape

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

  Alan Cohen

  Creativity, Unique, Life Is

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• Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

  Preet Bharara

  May, Insider Trading, Illegal

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• I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Loss, Innocence, Lost

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

  Lionel Trilling

  Writing, Judging, Giving

  Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.552, Northwestern University Press

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• I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

  Abelardo Morell

  Children, Looks, Photograph

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• If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Missing, Looks, Cost

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• Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

  Martha Ronk

  Writing, Different, Window

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Eye, Thinking, Views

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• A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

  Aleister Crowley

  Views, Ego, World

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• A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

  Cornel West

  Strong, Jobs, America

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• I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

  Michelle Shocked

  Records, Deals

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• We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

  Alan Moore

  Perception, World, Dull

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Different, Approach

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• For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

  Amor Towles

  Wind, Promise, Arriving

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.229, Penguin

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• Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'

  Jack Lemmon

  Teacher, Jobs, Character

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• The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Contemporary Fiction, Stuff

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

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• It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".

  Bernard Haisch

  Unique, Editors, Scientist

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• On Russia, I can only repeat what the president [Barack Obama] said. This is all about respecting certain principles, and I'm saying this from a European vantage point, from a European, from a German vantage point, sorry, the fact that for over 70 years we have been able to enjoy peace.

  Angela Merkel

  Sorry, Russia, Years

  Source: time.com

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• I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

  Jason Alexander

  Meaningful, Personality, Violence

  "Playing Your Role: A Middle East Peace Drama" by Jason Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dog, Heart, Eye

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• Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

  Steven Pinker

  Reading, Technology, Perspective

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.203, Penguin

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• Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Greatness, Childhood, Doe

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• ~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

  Julia Roberts

  Mother, Parenting, Thinking

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