No Point Quotes

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Memory should be the starting point of the present.

But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

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.

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.

Generally I know that we've hit on a good idea if there's a moment where I'm going "HA HA HA!" because that's usually my starting point, me laughing.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.

The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

Examine other points of view as if they were your own.

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.