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Viewpoint Quotes

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“Regardless of how it looks, everyone’s intention is always good from their own viewpoint.”
Meir Ezra

“If you want growth, just have the viewpoint that you are going to bring about growth.”
Meir Ezra

“Your body is a reflection of the viewpoint you (the spirit) assumed. Change your viewpoint and you will change your body. Change your viewpoint and you will change your life.”
Meir Ezra

Janelle Brown
“But I suppose that's the point of it all, for Vanessa: To throw herself into the world she wants to inhibit in the hopes of forgetting the one in which she really lives. Who am I to say she's wrong to try? We all build our own delusions and then live inside them, constructing walls to conveniently hide the things we don't want to see. Maybe it means that we're crazy, or maybe it means that we're monsters, or maybe it's just the world we live in now makes it so hard to separate truth from image from dream.”
Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

“If you don’t have your own viewpoint, you will procrastinate. Since you can not do or produce from someone else’s viewpoint.”
Meir Ezra

“If you don’t have your own viewpoint, you will not be willing. You are willing to the extent that you have your own viewpoint.”
Meir Ezra

Christopher Manske
“Perception trumps reality. People react to what they think is occurring, which isn’t necessarily the same thing as what’s truly happening.”
Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

Michael Bassey Johnson
“If someone can’t see from your perspective, don’t bend their neck.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

Aspen Matis
“Spirit dancing, I envisioned a place inside this energetic city, ours: a classic townhouse on a steep street with expansive views of the Pacific, the magenta siding sun-faded—a third-story perch, thick platinum haze embracing our new home.”
Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Can you change your mind? If you cannot, it’s not you doing the thinking. You’ve adopted someone else's viewpoint.”
Meir Ezra

Cadwell Turnbull
“He had mistaken his place in this story. The realization filled him with both terror and a little relief, the relief faint but present. He hoped the feeling would someday give him a measure of peace.”
Cadwell Turnbull, The Lesson

“If you have a fixed viewpoint that you cannot change, it’s not you � if it was your viewpoint, you could change it.”
Meir Ezra

Victor Pelevin
“That means, I thought, I can look out from inside myself like looking out of a plane, it doesn't really matter at all where you look out from, what matters is what you see . . .”
Victor Pelevin, Omon Ra

Don Roff
“Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.”
Don Roff

Gyan Nagpal
“Gazing on a trillion stars, each reticent; mankind sells itself the illusion of accomplishment”
Gyan Nagpal

Gift Gugu Mona
“A woman of vision looks at things from a different viewpoint, because she does not rely on her eyesight to visualize great things.”
Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“From a simple thing,
To the unexpected point.
An idea will spring,
If Changing your viewpoint,”
Maridany

Amit Kalantri
“Philosophy pacifies regrets of the past and encourages to fight fears of the future but it usually doesn't solve problems of the present.”
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Julieanne O'Connor
“It is not my job to change the minds of those who desire to harshly judge me. It’s merely my mission to love them too. This does not pose a threat. Only the jealously of my willingness to love can pose a threat. Still, we are all capable of loving each other. Love is a choice. The appearance of neutrality is merely an interpretation from the lens of one's own understanding. It’s neither truth nor fact. Merely the meaning someone has given to what they perceive.”
Julieanne O'Connor

Eldon Henson
“When we lose the proper mindset, we become so close to one thing or to a viewpoint that we fail to consider any other way of looking at that situation.”
Eldon Henson

“You are willing when you are able to assume any viewpoint.”
Meir Ezra

“When you can fully see another person’s viewpoint, you will never need to resist it.”
Meir Ezra

“Most people have one viewpoint - and it isn’t even theirs”
Meir Ezra

Sarah Jio
“We dip beneath an underpruned flowering vine that threatens to overthrow the very trellis that has given it life. A crimson flower tickles my cheek as I duck under it.
The scene just ahead is like something out of a fairy tale, or at least a fairy tale I'd like to read: at our feet a patch of wooly thyme, so soft it looks like a green pillow, and all around, roses, hydrangeas, alliums as large as dinner plates- flowers everywhere. But the view of Paris from this magical little perch is what really takes my breath away.”
Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris

G. Gold
“Happy endings depend on your point of view! (When the right thing seems wrong, the wrong thing may not be right either.)”
G. Gold, How Dare You - Deadly December

Gift Gugu Mona
“A woman of vision looks at things from a different viewpoint because she does not rely on her eyesight to visualize great things.”
Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

Don Roff
“Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from virtually any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.”
Don Roff

Dušan Kovačević
“MENAJER: (Tel örgüden dışarıdaki dünyaya bakarak) Kızmayın ama, burada sanki maymun kafesi içindesiniz.

STEVA: Hangi açıdan baktığınıza bağlı. Dışarıdan bakarsanız, evet... küçük bir maymun kafesindeyiz. Buradan dışarıya bakarsanız, dünyanın büyük bir maymun kafesi içinde olduğunu görürsünüz. Sorun, hangi açıdan baktığınızda...

Dar Ayakkabıyla Yaşamak”
Dušan Kovačević, Dar Ayakkabıyla Yaşamak

Shunryu Suzuki
“Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.”
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Know-It-Alls like Dr. Leavitt are knowledgeable and extremely competent people, highly assertive and outspoken in their viewpoints.”
Rick Brinkman, Dealing With People You Can't Stand and How to Simplify Your Life