The Point Quotes

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

A point guard is judged by wins and losses. I think I'm doing a good job.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

Some musicians are not great technicians, but they give you a rich point of view.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

The starting point is a question.

That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.