changing viewpoints Quotes

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

I am always interested in affecting people in some way, making them think about particular areas of history that they have never thought about or that they may have thought about in one way and then changing their view.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

I remember in the '70s or the early '80s, there were a lot of viewpoints represented on TV. And I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened in the '90s.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

I like situations that force me to rethink things.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.