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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment. -- John Szarkowski
  • 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
  • God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives. -- Dillon Burroughs
  • Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928) -- Alexander Rodchenko
  • ~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
  • Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision. -- Larry Graham
  • I feel like people mislead themselves when they tell themselves they're into me because of the lyrics. From my vantage point, people aren't into me because of the content, because of the lyrics. Because there's a million of rappers who have great content. -- Talib Kweli
  • As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps. -- Angela Carter
  • 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
  • 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
  • I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity. -- J. Allen Hynek
  • Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • I came to this project and 'Far from Heaven' from completely different vantage points. 'Heaven' was of course about the Douglas Sirk films of that period, with the very specific cinematic language and style of melodrama. With 'Carol,' it was presented to me already packaged, with Cate Blanchett attached and Phyllis Nagy's script complete - when it came to me it had a long history and pre-history. -- Todd Haynes
  • We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point. -- Victoria Moran
  • My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients. -- Atul Gawande
  • Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. -- Nigel Kennedy
  • I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point. -- Joe McNally
  • 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
  • In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view. -- John Henrik Clarke
  • Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank. -- Gary Hamel
  • For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see. -- Ruth Ozeki
  • My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly. -- Frank Rich
  • On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir. -- Jill Soloway
  • 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
  • I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point. -- Gail Collins
  • It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything. -- Andrea Jung
  • There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did. -- Feist
  • We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected -- James Wright
  • A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world. -- Aleister Crowley
  • You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point. -- Rhonda Byrne
  • Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it. -- Alan Cohen
  • Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. -- Aleister Crowley
  • I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point. -- Jack Nicholson
  • ... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself. -- Bernard Beckett
  • For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived. -- Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on". -- Bernard Haisch
  • Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective. -- Ron Lizzi
  • Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • 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
  • If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • 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
  • The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it. -- Lady Bird Johnson
  • Live your life 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. -- Harold B Melchart
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