Viewpoint Quotes

I learned early that you`d better know what you`re talking about. You`d better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you`re going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there`s no way they`re going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they`re going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You`re an actor. What do you know?"

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

I wanted to write something from a child`s viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

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.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

I certainly listen to my old songs from time to time and I hear the roots of what I`m doing today. But they were written from a young man`s viewpoint.

I just think that Mark has got the attributes it would really take to lead the city - fresh leadership and a new viewpoint, ... puts him in good stead with the suburban folks.

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.

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.

From my viewpoint it was in the box. The divot that was made was in the box, in my viewpoint.

I don`t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

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.

I think it`s free speech and I`m pro-choice. They have the right to put the ads up and have their viewpoint out there.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

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.

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant

We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.