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“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”

Men World Inspiring Views Absolutes Point Of View Representation Absolute Truth

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.”

Rooms Views Point Of View Print Outsiders

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.”

Writing Philosophy Political Views Feminism Concepts Ideals Logic Atheist Point Of View Contradiction Brotherhood Secularism Political Philosophy

Author:Michel Onfray

“It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.”

Views Theory Development Safe Structure Point Of View Corny Theoretical Relevance Relativity Factual

Book:THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION

Source: THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION

“When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.”

Views Guitar Point Of View Explaining

Author:Katy Perry

“I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?”

Moments Character Feelings Given Challenges Views Emotion Scene Point Of View Driving Rely Interpretation Pivotal

Author:Liz Phair

“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.”

Made Problem Levels Views Psychology Higher Point Of View Transition Judged Epistemology

Author:Jean Piaget

“It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.”

Views Deals Expectations Weight Point Of View Hardest

Author:Kevin Pietersen

“If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”

Different Facts Views Gay Point Of View Bless Gay Marriage Sanctity Denominations Different Points Of View

Author:Colin Powell

“I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.”

Thinking Book Waiting Views Missing Comfortable Point Of View Printing Manuscripts Packaging Techie

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.”

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

Want Views Aim Point Of View Medal

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”

Use Views Acting Hero Point Of View Maturity

Author:Christopher Reeve

“I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!”

Thinking Littles Important Young Girl Walks Views Roles Growing Up Growing Proud Models Point Of View Role Models Young Women Walks Of Life Girls Growing Up

Author:Sally Ride

“There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.”

Ifs Should Humans Said War Law Culture Process Sides Views Democracy Taken Share Judging Vote Democratic Sexuality Point Of View Representatives Assault Democratic Process

Author:Pat Robertson

“A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.”

People Persons Hard Remember Simple Views Deals Strive Point Of View Superiority

Author:Alfred Adler

“I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.”

Ifs Humans Wells I Can Ideas Soul Light Spirit Energy Religious Views Truth Is Doctors Males Point Of View Medical No Idea Medical Doctor

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.”

Writing Wells Children Views Point Of View

Author:Richard Russo

“From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.”

Ifs Looks Mean Doe Matter Views Point Of View Core Buddhist Characteristics Emptiness Transparency Unchanging Nothing Matters

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.”

Important Views Point Of View Judaism

Author:Vidal Sassoon

“The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.”

Literature Sin Views Christianity Essentials Point Of View

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?”

People Views Reflection Treats Point Of View Arguing Secure Disdain

Author:William Shatner

“I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.”

Knows Needs Writing Years Firsts Play Would Be Age Found Individual Views Imagine Years Ago Point Of View Fantastic Relief Signals Playwright

Author:Wallace Shawn

“A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.”

Want Belief Views Objects Commitment Point Of View Journalism Objectivity

Author:Nate Silver

“What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.”

Men Feels Should Trying Children Play America Speak Black Views Roles Point Of View Black America

Author:Will Smith

“Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.”

Sometimes Views Destiny Fate Talent Directors Skills Point Of View Casting Fate And Destiny Skills And Talent

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.”

Thinking Book Different Views Teacher Point Of View Historian Scholar Supplements Different Points Of View

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.”

Whole Song Views Records Soldier Iraq Point Of View Christmas

Author:Rick Springfield

“From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.”

People Able Moving Given Social Views Cities Economic Commitment Towns Point Of View Beneficial Homeownership

Author:James Surowiecki

“Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.”

Christian Views Economic Point Of View Fundamentalism Mike Disturbing Populism

Author:Matt Taibbi

“My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.”

Thinking Important Games Sports Views Point Of View Cricket Playing Cricket

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.”

People Different Language Views Written Point Of View Honestly Upheaval Different Points Of View

Author:Alice Walker

“Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.”

Should Views Attitude Design Point Of View Lifestyle Designer

Author:Vera Wang

“I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.”

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Author:J. C. Watts

“If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.”

Ifs Way Persons Views Tree Victim Woods Point Of View

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.”

People Way Want Years Humans Today Views Point Of View Mood I've Learned Realistic Swings Mood Swing

Author:Otis Williams

“Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.”

World Different Interesting Views Sky Ocean Point Of View Live Your Life Very Interesting Different Points Of View Limos

Author:Pharrell Williams

“As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.”

People Way Firsts Believe Heart Might Views Ego Musician Point Of View Songwriters Empathetic

Author:Bono

“The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.”

Values Views Psychology Claims Point Of View Hypothesis Materialistic Heuristics

Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“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.”

World Views Point Of View

Author:Neil Young

“One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.”

Knows Order Views Position Remains Point Of View Iron Opposing

Author:Francis Collins

“Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.”

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Author:Colm Toibin

“Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.”

Thinking Should Mean Two Guy Views Worry Gay Males Point Of View Just One Two Guys Chauvinism House Of Night

Book:House of Night Series

Source: House of Night Series

“The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.”

“...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.”

“The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.”

People Reality Film Form Rooms Views Impossible Worst Models Illusion Point Of View Department Bullying Worst Things Furniture Cripples

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.”

Challenges Views Point Of View Principal

Author:Richard Branson

“See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.”

Ifs Looks War Government Views Roles Economic Drug Protect Point Of View War On Drugs Cartels Drug Cartels

Author:Milton Friedman

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