Quotes of Standpoint - somelinesforyou

“ I just thought the Legacy Highway was more local. From a national standpoint, Katrina was a bigger story. But from a local standpoint, I think Legacy was a bigger story. ”

- Thomas Neil

“ I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. ”

- Martha Beck

“ All right, Shep, I want to get some perspective here. ”

- Sean Hannity

“ CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint. ”

- Chuck Jones

“ I think that the biggest misconception I have run across is people assuming that this is my final destination - that being a model is the pinnacle of my life - how wrong they are! ”

- Shae Marks

“ You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. ”

- Robert Wise

“ War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. ”

- Ted Turner

“ Now we see that we have to pay attention to the environment. We have to protect it. It's become a real issue and a lot of people are still looking at it from a 20th century standpoint. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the purpose of action and the effects on life. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ That interest was there before, but coming from the standpoint of being a human being, now I understand more clearly why it's important to watch CNN, for example, and to pay attention to the news and politics and social issues and cultures of other nations. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs. ”

- Barbara Boxer

“ From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. ”

- Wayne Allard

“ We must be the epitome — the embodiment — of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. ”

- Earl Nightingale
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