“Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.” WorldGivingTryingChildrenAbilityViewsInfluenceDependsOughtRelateFuture Happiness Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time.” TryingMeanLittlesMightStuffBitsViewsLuckyLittle BitPoint Of ViewGood TimesDescriptionLove LifeSurprisingDrankHaving A Good TimeUntruthI Love LifeSurprising ThingsHappy Go Lucky Author:Michael J. Fox
“Now, I know Obama was trying to take the long view, but talking about solar energy in the middle of the oil spill is like watching your house engulfed in flames and saying, 'We really should change the curtains.'” KnowsShouldTryingLongHouseEnergyViewsTalkingMiddleOilFlamesCurtainsSpillsSolar EnergyOil Spill Author:Craig Ferguson
“Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.” WayTryingCharacterNamesRoomsViewsCallingPoint Of ViewAssassinationSquashName CallingCharacter Assassination Author:David Horowitz
“Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.” TryingFactsScienceBeliefViewsTeachAtheismEvidenceStrongerCarefulAspirationBe CarefulConformHostilePreconceptions Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley
“I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.” TryingMaySoulDoneRememberFormFeltViewsIntellectualSmartStupidityNobleBitterBeing TrueNecksStretchingVery Smart Author:Corra May Harris
“In my view, Democrats and Republicans work together too little, and I would try to change that if I got to be president. And when it came to radical Islam, I would go after them before they come back here again.” IfsTryingLittlesTogetherPresidentChangeViewsRepublicanDemocratIslamRadicalWorking TogetherRadical Islam Author:Lindsey Graham
“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.” PeopleGivingTryingHumansChildrenI CanCountryShowsCareKidsViewsPovertyCollegeSucceedGiving UpPoint Of ViewHealth CareGuaranteesOld PeopleGiving Up Is Not An Option Author:Bernie Sanders
“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.” WantTryingSongVoiceViewsFocusAlbumsPoint Of ViewPartnersDuets Author:John Legend
“I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.” TryingHardBigsEyeSimpleViewsHard WorkFindingsSolutionsBirdMindsetKnocking Author:Muhammad Yunus
“What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.” TryingKindHardEyeSchoolViewsBirdEducationalAcquire Author:Muhammad Yunus
“I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.” MenWayFeelsShouldTryingCharacterStoriesViewsMalesPoint Of ViewFallenStorytellerTelling Stories Author:Danae Elon
“You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.” PeopleTryingSometimesHousePresidentInterestWhiteViewsProtectPressesPainfulPoint Of ViewPrioritiesAgendasWhite HouseSecretaryCompetingPainful Experiences Author:Dee Dee Myers
“I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.” TryingLeftViewsEvolutionPoliticianOffersIntellectualRegardIndependentCritical Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The funny thing is, when a Harley-Davidson guy full of tattoos comes out with a Maltese, they're trying to soften themselves out. When a very soft, single lady with a tailored look comes out with a Rottweiler, she’s looking for protection, for strength. Society automatically views the guy as too strong so he brings a Maltese. It's just a natural way to balance your situation. It really depends.” WayTryingLooksGuyStrongNaturalViewsSituationDependsBalanceProtectionTattooFunny ThingsTailoredHarleySingle LadiesHarley DavidsonRottweilers Author:Cesar Millan
“The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.” PeopleWayWritingTryingArtInterestingViewsPoint Of View Author:Emily Haines
“I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.” TryingInspirationViewsNiceWeekendAirportsHaiku Author:Pat Mora
“If it turns out that we're doing proper science from time to time, it just happens to be that that's the most efficient way of doing it. We go into each of these stories with an open mind, and one of the great things about how the show works is that we're not approaching it from a doctoral point of view, we're just trying to see what happens.” IfsWayTryingMindStoriesShowsHappensTurnsViewsPoint Of ViewGreat ThingsEfficientOpen Mind Author:Jamie Hyneman
“Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.” TryingViewsOpinionOur RelationshipProgressionShortcomingsIdentifying Author:Trevor Noah
“As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.” IfsWritingTryingMatterPhilosophyCharacterStoriesViewsPoint Of ViewPlot Author:Andre Dubus
“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.” TryingDifferencesViewsAudienceComedyMaterialsDependsEssentialsTragedyPoint Of ViewCleverEmphasis Author:George P. Baker
“The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?” TryingFilmViewsStageParticularStructureNotionScriptsPoint Of ViewAddresses Author:Christopher Nolan