"The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it."
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"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them."
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"I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that."
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"Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul come forth to walk about hither and thither and whithersoever it pleaseth."
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"Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success."
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"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
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"To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you."
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"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."
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"It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view."
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"The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence."
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"We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right."
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"The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes."
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"His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?"
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"The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view."
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"I see people as they really are from a pure point of view."
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"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."
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"I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. And you can create beauty when you're in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years."
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"Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence."
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."
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"Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many."
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