The Point Quotes

You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

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.

My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.

The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.

It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

A lot depends on the starting point.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

There's no point doing anything half arsed or if you don't fully believe in it. It will always show otherwise and you'll get found out.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.