“Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.” LooksDifferentPlayEasyMoralPositionPerspectiveMy FavoriteIncidentsArthurDifferent Perspective Author:David Bezmozgis
“Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.” WayWritingMadeAmericaFeltBlackTermDifferencesPositionPerspectiveUniqueAspectFilmmakerSuperiorityLoftySubtlety Author:Ruby Dee
“I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentStoriesEnjoyUnderstandingViewsPositionTelevisionPerspectiveScaryPoint Of ViewPushingDisserviceDifferent Points Of ViewUnderstanding Things Author:Morgan Spurlock
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.” NeedsStoriesOrderCoursesOpinionPositionPerspectiveEgoJudgementIdentification Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. I had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingHardPlayFeelingsCertainActorsTermViewsStagePositionPerspectiveAdvantagePoint Of View Author:Sam Shepard
“Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.” IfsThinkingWould BeSubjectsPositionPerspectiveEgoConscienceMirrorsPsychoanalysisAnorexics Author:Simon Critchley
“I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.” IfsImportantEndsAsksPositionAdventurePerspectiveLooking BackNew Adventure Author:Reinhold Messner
“My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.” TogetherViewsPositionPerspectiveConversationIdealsCurrentsWideExpertsDimensionsRepresentationConsensusPursued Author:Philip Kitcher