The Point Quotes

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

There's really no point in letting failure get the best of you. Better to just let it go and move on.

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

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

You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.

The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.

I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.

I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.

I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.

Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.

I think we could be at a tipping point

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."