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Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.”

Light Pain Dark Views Particular Determine Point Of View Factors Optimist Pessimist Impotence

Book:In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)

Source: In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)

“I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician might do. Taking my clues from the theosophical use made of the Vedantic levels of reality, I identified the western notion of Energy (as someting which is effecatious by means of motion), with the idea of Time. The more comprehensive dimension 'eternity' I defined as a form of energy which is efficacious without motion. In this manner I began to establish the qualities of dimensions and open out the seemingly monolithic concept of energy.”

Mean Made Ideas Use Reality Might Form Energy Levels Views Quality Research Concepts Eternity Western Notion Point Of View Defined Dimensions Quantity Mathematician Clue Comprehensive

Author:Paul Laffoley

“Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.”

Used Views Sky Limits Point Of View Sky's The Limit

Author:Big Sean

“From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.”

Action Certain Views Position Empathy Point Of View Phenomenon Outsiders

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.”

Ifs Men May Doe Play Jobs Individual Differences Work Views Pay Example Depends Taste Labor Workers Point Of View Gardener Manuals Clerks Laborers Cobblers

Author:W. H. Auden

“To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such a way, whatever blocks you may have experienced in the past melt in the light of that inner energy pouring from your heart. From a businessman's point of view, this is beautiful, for everything you touch turns to gold. Further, it helps you to believe in yourself. In seeing worth all around, you make your every act an affirmation of your strength.”

“You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.”

People Felt Interesting Views Picks Males Point Of View Tales Oppressed Pyramids Narrators Handmaids

Author:Margaret Atwood

“You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.”

Stories Form Views Behinds Involved Point Of View Journalism Viewpoints Biased

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.”

May Stills Speak Views Enemy Determined Point Of View Severe Speak The Truth Disregard One Direction

Author:Benjamin Haydon

“The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.”

Men Philosophy Whole Shows Universe Views Moral Comfort Ethics Economics Mere Complexes Simplicity Point Of View Tea Proportion Geometry Cleanliness Hygiene Man And Nature

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.”

Writing Firsts Made Remember Spirit Father Views Example Point Of View Doctrine Greek Champion Latin Rome Verses Epic Rationalism Free Thought Personification

Author:Quintus Ennius

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.”

Knows Way Should Ideas Views Point Of View My Way Dawn

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.”

Ifs Want Writing Spiritual Views Novel Psychology Point Of View Lust Sensual Analysis Torture Shy Disgusting Shocking Petty Unnatural Inconsistent Impotence Infamy

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.”

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Author:Stephen Spender

“Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.”

Way Giving Art Made Self Would Be Used Order Culture Views Masters Art Is Point Of View One Way New Ways New Cultures

Author:Marianne von Werefkin

“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.”

Moving Sides Change Views Willing Higher Point Of View Both Sides Willing To Change

Book:Magic of Conflict

Source: Magic of Conflict

“It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.”

Hard Views Conflict Creating Point Of View Pearls

Author:Thomas Crum

“Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.”

“'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.”

Character Lasts Views Point Of View Storytelling

Author:Felicia Day

“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”

Thinking Three Easy Views Brain Four Evolution Point Of View Mathematical Dimensions

Author:Stephen Hawking

“From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.”

Way Want Courses Views Support Effects Policy West Israel Point Of View Height Brutal Negotiation Maintaining Gaza Separating Siege

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.”

Life Important Country Politics Left Difficult Views Position Periods Mark Point Of View Honestly Russia Our Country Transition Public Life

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.”

I Can Found Views Focus Growing Truth Is Tough Aging Point Of View Tough Times Seasoning

Author:Steve Goodier

“What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.”

Knows World Mean Individual Views Evolution Activity Ethics Point Of View Rational Disposition Affirmation Extensions World And Life

Book:Civilization and Ethics

Source: Civilization and Ethics

“How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.”

Thinking World Want Should Littles Enough Shows Actors Left Views Roles Mystery Protect Point Of View Profession Tricks Magician Clouded Private Things

Author:Christopher Plummer

“Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.”

Stories Literature Views Conditions Poet Down And Point Of View Novelists Relative Upside Down Classical Literature

Author:Margaret Drabble

“We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it.”

Views Sexuality Point Of View Empowered

Author:Amber Heard

“I'm from the point of view there's something important to deliver to the world. You can be an entertainer; I suppose I shouldn't be down on the idea of going to see a film for the hell of it, but there's too much of that.”

World Important Ideas Film Views Hell Too Much Point Of View Entertainers

Author:Rob Nilsson

“From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.”

Thinking Views Powerful Female Entertainment Sexuality Point Of View Empowered Stood Up Really Powerful

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.”

Self Animal Views Involved Terrible Point Of View Empathetic

Author:Lily Tomlin

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

Believe Political I Believe Views Determined Point Of View

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“When I approach villains, unless it's a drama, I'm a comedian, so I approach most things from a comedic point of view.”

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Author:Rob Riggle

“I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.”

Ends Perfect Views Smart Point Of View Villain Hyper

Author:John Lasseter

“The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.”

Want Trying Song Voice Views Focus Albums Point Of View Partners Duets

Author:John Legend

“One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.”

Different Able Life Is Sides Interesting Views Pressure Point Of View Variety Interesting Things Public Life Viewpoints Different Sides

Author:Barack Obama

“Folks need the Gospel. We need to have our hearts changed. We see people from a skewed point of view. We need to see people the way God sees them.”

People Way Needs Heart Views Changed Folks Point Of View

Author:Trip Lee

“If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.”

Ifs Long Stories Actors Views Willing Directors Point Of View Producers Hats

Author:Michael Eklund

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