Limited Viewpoint Quotes

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

To frame an issue is to reduce it to a story for which there is only one possible outcome

'Top Gear''s popularity is a complete mystery to me. Maybe it's because it's still a car programme, but it's turned into a distorted world view from three men; a world view through the windscreen.

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

As the saying goes, when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.