Point Quotes

When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho

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

We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho

There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
- Gwen Stefani

After a certain point, money is meaningless.
It ceases to be the goal.
The game is what counts.
- Aristotle Onassis

I quit high school on my birthday.
It was my senior year and I didn't see the point.
This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
- Barry White

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle
of horizon becomes smaller and smaller,
and as the radius approaches zero
it concentrates on one point.
And then that becomes his point of view.
- David Hilbert

I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
I will give my body to my love and celebrate
that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves.
We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point.
This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The present is a point just passed.
- David Russell

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together.
I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
- Martin Puryear

Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Design works if it's authentic, inspired,
and has a clear point of view.
It can't be a collection of input.
- Ron Johnson

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence;
but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Equality and development will not be achieved however
if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
- Jenny Shipley

Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Food can become such a point of anxiety -
not because it's food,
but just because you have anxiety.
That's how eating disorders develop.
- Vanessa Carlton

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome.
No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- Andre Gide

Men must live and create.
Live to the point of tears.
- Albert Camus

If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill

Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's really no point in having children if you're
not going to be home enough to father them.
- Anthony Edwards

A poet's work is to name the unnameable,
to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments,
shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
- Salman Rushdie

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll

There is no point at which you can say,
"Well, I'm successful now.
I might as well take a nap."
- Carrie Fisher

But in the end it's still a game of golf,
and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands
with your opponents and still be friends,
then you've missed the point.
- Payne Stewart

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are,
you see who I am...
and that's what it's about.
- Nana Visitor

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and
the most descriptive way to say it.
- Camryn Manheim

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and
leaves the rest as surplus.
- Thomas Carlyle

It is simply the truth that the political system that
I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

There are readers who want every point to be clearly
and unambiguously set forth,
and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
- John M. Ford

At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling.
I am pursuing my acting career.
But I never say never.
I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry.
- Rita Mero

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling.
Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects
of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
- Brian De Palma

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically,
without the basic fundamentals.
- Chico Hamilton

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only
the starting point of systematic analysis,
for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
- Gary Becker

I love independent filmmaking.
I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.
- Gena Rowlands

A painting is like a man.
If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
- Lila Acheson Wallace

We've all known a John Tucker.
We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one.
I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.
- Sophia Bush

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of
this harmonious way of living is happiness.
- Benjamin Hoff

There are a thousand ways to point a camera,
but really only one.
- Ernst Lubitsch

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
- Eberhard Weber

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point
where women are throwing their panties at me.
- Taye Diggs

At some point, Moore's law will break down.
- Seth Lloyd

At this point I've got a bit of a track record.
So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody,
it's not meant to make them look bad...
it's meant to be a tribute.
- Al Yankovic

I have a tendency to often share the point of view
of the conspiracy theory.
- Marion Cotillard

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments,
really don't have much point in the orchestra.
- Gerry Mulligan

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that,
not just the girl's but his point of view as well.
Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.
- Andrew McCarthy

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when
albums came on the scene,
and I was one of the first singers to point the way
to how varied an album's contents could be.
- Mel Torme

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.
- Stuart Appleby

My main worry is that after a certain point you become
so identified with a character and a series that you
might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.
- Martin Milner

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point.
It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
- James Cash Penney

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force.
Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart -
and we were never able to make that film.
- Renny Harlin

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.
- Jane Harman

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've
been working their whole lives -
should take time out and think about what they've done.
- Gregory Hines

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