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A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. -- Howard Fineman
'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life. -- Taylor Momsen
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. -- Gates McFadden
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. -- Shirley Manson
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. -- Emmanuel Teney
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. -- James Hillman
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. -- Denis Diderot
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. -- Benito Mussolini
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint. -- Jimmy Wales
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. -- Jerry Brown
We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy. -- Geoffrey West
Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint. -- Don Henley
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. -- Harry S. Truman
Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of the corps concept of overcoming fear, I felt Simon was a great character to explore, while getting a different viewpoint on things. -- Geoff Johns
My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished. -- Robert Frank
All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. -- Deb Caletti
When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear. -- Joel Edgerton
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge. -- Margaret Atwood
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama. -- Roger Ebert
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk. -- Eddie Vedder
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response. -- Terry Eagleton
I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child. -- Walter Dean Myers
The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power. -- Rosalind Wiseman
If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it. -- Mike Mills
Every viewpoint is a view from a point. -- Richard Rohr
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint. -- Vernon Howard
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Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint. -- Charles Stanley
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint. -- Robert Sheckley
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. -- Vernor Vinge
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others. -- Henry Ford
Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same. -- Dalai Lama
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian. -- Paul Merton
Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint. -- Dale Carnegie
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. -- George R. R. Martin
Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess. -- Adrian Rogers
If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me. -- Georges Bataille
I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life. -- Taylor Momsen
We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people -- Hillary Clinton
Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint. -- Jim Butcher
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. -- Albert Einstein
The viewpoint of the government is that the people must have full access to all information worldwide. -- Hassan Rouhani
I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians. -- Joseph Bruchac
Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are. -- Neville Goddard
When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint. -- Barbara Mikulski
If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data. -- William S. Burroughs
To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality -- Lilian Jackson Braun
The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint. -- David J. Lieberman
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it. -- Terence McKenna
I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it. -- Amy Adams
The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint. -- Murong Xuecun
The three things a guy should want to change about his girl is her last name, address and her viewpoint on men. -- Kid Cudi
In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices. -- Toshihiko Fukui
From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ...you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen. -- Wayne Dyer
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Your business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective. -- Feargal Quinn
A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race. -- Frederic Bastiat
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. -- Bianca Jagger
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control. -- Mario Bunge
I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world. -- Conor Oberst
On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through. -- Bruce Beresford
I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable. -- Whitfield Diffie
People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism. -- Immortal Technique
Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days! -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint. -- Ambeth R. Ocampo
The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again. -- John Lewis
I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one. -- Ruskin Bond
We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicists viewpoint, entropy. -- Geoffrey West
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex. -- Carl Jung
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film. -- Bruce Beresford
However, I'm older, wiser, more mature, and can deliver the rhymes in a different way. Because I guess I have a more holistic viewpoint and approach. -- MC Lyte
Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent. -- Alex Flinn
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. -- Gus Van Sant
One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right. -- Harry S. Truman
When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive. -- Tori Amos
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist. -- Todd Rundgren
The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present. -- Terry Eagleton
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer. -- Alex Flinn
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal. -- Dalai Lama
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them. -- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character. -- F. Paul Wilson
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint. -- Laura Riding
We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone. -- Jamake Highwater
I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer. -- Robert Plant
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations. -- Mac Thornberry
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel. -- George R. R. Martin
You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them. -- John Romero
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage. -- John Maeda
The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification. -- Charles Hugh Smith
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. -- Steven Moffat
No one can have two viewpoints about terrorism. There is no religion of terrorism. I am often asked my viewpoint on this, maybe because i am very proud to be a Muslim -- Shah Rukh Khan
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. -- Harry S. Truman
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer. -- James Ellroy
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by. -- Vernon Howard
I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character. -- George R. R. Martin
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended. -- James A.C. Brown
The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint]. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated. -- Silvano Arieti
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint. -- Norman Rockwell
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided... -- Richard M. Nixon
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element. -- Gus Van Sant
Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations. -- Benedict Fitzgerald
The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended. -- John Sparkman
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. -- Harry S. Truman

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