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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)
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. View quote
Horace
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. View quote
Epictetus
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. View quote
Ronald Reagan
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. View quote
Sophia Loren
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. View quote
John le Carré
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. View quote
John Ashbery
The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake. View quote
Akio Morita
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. (Thomas Campbell)
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
The Universal view melts things into a blur. View quote
Emil Cioran
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. View quote
Livy
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. View quote
Willa Cather
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. View quote
Lillian Hellman
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. View quote
Gordon Moore
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. (David Bohm)
Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view. View quote
David Brin
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. View quote
Howard Dean
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. View quote
Bertrand Russell