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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi
Winter
Brainy
Own
Autumn
Our
Everything
Though
Point
Point Of View
Like
Permanence
Pass
Opinions
Cling
Gradually
Depended
View
Away
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Stephen Covey
You
Giving
Understanding
Reflect
Back
Point
Point Of View
Emotional
Like
Another
Person
Listen
Oxygen
Them
Really
View
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
Success
Own
Other
Secret
Lies
Ability
See
Angle
Point
Point Of View
Well
Person
Get
Any
View
Your
Things
Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.
Sean Covey
People
Judge
Too
Other
Way
All The Facts
Seeing
Having
Point
Point Of View
Facts
Without
Understand
Often
Different
Us
Act
View
Help
Why
Things
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan
Dangerous
Luxury
Understanding
Insight
Point
Point Of View
View
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.
Christopher Reeve
Wisdom
Maturity
Hero
Superman
Power
Point
Point Of View
He
Part
Wisely
Makes
How
View
Acting
Use
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
Che Guevara
Truth
Me
Passion
Everything
Guides
Only
Point
Point Of View
Look
View
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World
Nothing
Insignificant
Point
Point Of View
Depends
View
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
Truth
Great
Silence
Eloquent
Totalitarian
About
More
Point
Could
Point Of View
Simply
Most
Practical
Greater
Opinion
Still
Subjects
Effectively
Than
Influenced
Much
Certain
View
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee
You
Consider
Point
Point Of View
Never
Until
Understand
His
Person
Really
View
Things
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.
Paul Rand
Life
Knowledge
Technology
Creative
Economics
Design
Related
Way
Complex
Visual
Ability
Point
Point Of View
Talent
Involves
Aesthetic
Process
Psychology
Communications
Skill
View
Manual
Whole
Technical
Technical Knowledge
From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.
Pope Francis
God
Darkness
Light
Dissolve
Point
Point Of View
Divine
Within
Does
Spark
Us
View
Even
Each
Illuminates
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin
Equality
Men
Rule
Only
Point
Point Of View
Exceptions
Equal
Geniuses
Idiots
View
Naturalistic
Two
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
Howard Dean
God
Gay
People
Thought
Would
Religious
Point
Point Of View
Had
He
Sin
Created
View
Homosexuality
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
Work
Truth
World
Men
Own
Confuse
Absolute
Point
Point Of View
Absolute Truth
Like
Itself
Representation
Which
View
Describe
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Hypatia
Truth
You
Fight
Truth Is
Will
Men
Living
Changeable
More
Fact
Superstition
Point
Point Of View
Since
Intangible
Quickly
Get
Quite
Often
In Fact
Refute
Cannot
View
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
Rowan Atkinson
Problem
Criticism
Too
Stating
Point
Point Of View
Clear
Merely
Alternative
Insult
View
Sarcasm
Many
Ridicule
Things
Interpreted
Orthodoxy
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.
Otis Williams
Life
Today
People
Looking
Realistic
Way
Mood
Mood Swings
Would
Point
Point Of View
Instead
Over
Talented
Learned
How
Years
Human
Want
Regardless
View
Swings
Things
From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.
Thomas Steinbeck
Government
Justice
Patriotism
Father
Thought
Those
Given
Voice
Point
Point Of View
Self
True
Without
Halls
Real
Condemnation
Up
Stones
Patriot
Against
View
Speaks
Who
Stands
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.
Alfred Adler
You
Simple
Remember
Rule
Those
Striving
Must
Superiority
Point
Point Of View
Along
Him
Deal
Dealing
His
Person
Get
View
Hard
Who
Assert
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Good
People
Bad People
Good People
Imagination
Bad
Variety
Point
Point Of View
Colour
Studies
Stir
Represent
View
Strangeness
Reason
Fascinating
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!
Sally Ride
Life
Women
Walk
Girl
Important
Young
Every
Think
Point
Point Of View
Proud
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Little
Young Women
Little Girls
View
Growing
Growing Up
Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.
Kurt Russell
People
Own
See
Point
Point Of View
Very
Than
Human
Different
Human Beings
View
Beings
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.
Stephen Hawking
Three
Think
Our
Dimensions
Evolution
Easy
Visualise
Purely
Directly
Point
Point Of View
Equipped
However
Mathematical
Brains
Just
View
Four
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
Arlo Guthrie
Challenges
People
Challenge
Responsibility
Understanding
Own
Other
Everyone
Those
Only
Point
Point Of View
Terms
Also
Accept
Another
Person
View
Your
Tolerate
Express
Eagerly
Serving
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz
You
Picture
Point
Point Of View
Conceptual
Going
May
Representative
Literally
Room
View
Portrait
Image
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