Vantage point Quotes

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of…

— Anonymous

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

— Nigel Kennedy

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

— Alan Cohen

For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values.

— Ayanna Pressley

It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.

— Pauline Oliveros

“You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you.”

— Julian Barbour

“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.”

— Steve Pemberton

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

— Aleister Crowley

“The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could…

— Dave Chappelle

“It's the soul's eye which stares at your beauty and knows you well. And from it's vantage point you're as visible as…

— Leandra J. Kalsy

“What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need,…

— Charlie Kaufman

“From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey…

— Irving Stone

It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here.…

— Andrea Jung

This increasing level of player power worries me. Of course they are the stars but this acquiescence over contracts, transfers, managers and…

— Simon Jordan

“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage…

— Aldous Huxley

“I’m not convinced that stories from real life have beginnings and ends, as a matter of fact. Approach them from any vantage…

— Sophie Hannah

I think one of the ways that we can fight against climate change is keep showing what we're doing to the planet,…

— Shannon Walker

My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried…

— Mat Kearney

I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he…

— John Shelby Spong

By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don't want, you…

— Esther Hicks

“Blue raised an eyebrow. "What is it you're thinking she has up here?" "I don't know." "Ferrets?" "Don't be ridiculous." "Wizards?" Calla…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The teacher, Mrs. Jennings...makes us sit in a circle. An elementary school, duck-duck-goose-style circle. This affords each of us the best possible…

— Katja Millay

“My vantage point must have been somewhere between our little house and the steamer jetty. The sea was exceptionally calm. Lit up…

— George Seferis

“More surprising, perhaps, was that I began to understand something important about humans and trees at that moment. I began to understand…

— M.O. Walsh

“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand,…

— Betty Friedan

“Anybody in the world. ..But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and…

— Alan Moore

“Audrey kept moving with practiced quickness, stepping over roots protruding over the trail and pushing ferns and branches out of her way.…

— Ilona Andrews

“Viktor Frankl used the metaphor of geometric dimensions to illustrate challenges in perception and understanding. Just as a three-dimensional cylinder projected onto…

— Laura Patryas

“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that…

— Carl Sagan

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting…

— Jerry Bridges

“It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind…

— Marcel Proust

“Joan had told me a story once about some elephants in captivity somewhere, how as babies they were put into ankle cuffs…

— Wendy Blackburn

“Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“To think of the Midwest as a whole as anything other than beautiful is to ignore the extraordinary power of the land.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Hubble then made an even more amazing discovery. By measuring the red shift of the stars’ spectra (which is the light wave…

— Walter Isaacson

“We anchored just off the mouth of the Ozama River in about 30 feet of water and used the running boat to…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“There's not much to say about loneliness, for it's not a broad subject. Any child, alone in her room, can journey across…

— David Marusek

“There is no word to describe exactly what the High Line is to the non-architects among us, nor the collective reframing process…

— Sarah Lewis

“John Noa moved slowly toward the window. Old age had not been kind to him, and though he could still sit a…

— Patricia Forde