Words matter. These are the best Points Quotes from famous people such as Walter Pater, Abigail Adams, Nahnatchka Khan, Noah Hawley, Bud Grant, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
When you take stock, there are so many more choices and points of view that are necessary.
What makes something tragic is that it could’ve been averted at multiple points.
‘Monday Night Football’ has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that’s important. But when you’re having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.
I’ve seen a therapist at different points in my life for different reasons.
I like playmakers, man, if it’s a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who’s going to be able to change the game.
Art points to things. It’s a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.
It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the ’70s is utterly bizarre.
The best chance we have of being successful is to not slip up and keep working hard to get three points on the board.
We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.
One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for ‘I Will Survive.’
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that’s OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.
I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.
There’s a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians’ talking points, that’s dangerously simple. I don’t know a better way to say it. And there’s usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.
Walking in the morning improves my whole day. I think more clearly, my points of view are sharper, and I’m more decisive.
You can’t break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I’ve tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
When I start a new novel, I often write ‘test chapters’ in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.
There were a lot of points where I would start to come out, face stern resistance and mockery from people I thought were my friends, and then reverse course. I was scared. I don’t think I ever said, ‘I’m gay,’ or, ‘I’m trans.’ It was more like, ‘Is it normal for guys to crossdress a lot?’
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they’ll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others.
Context is worth 80 IQ points.
The subject of angels and demons really grabbed me. There is a huge mass of information, and the Bible is one of the most amazing reference points.
A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don’t feel anything for those people.
As wrestlers, we’re not trying to hurt or damage physically our opponent. All we’re trying to do is score points and get our hands raised, so I think that’s where we differ from the UFC, but I think that also the way in which we could address each other could be cool from a competitive spirit.
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don’t know about categorizing them in terms of class; I’m a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It’s going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.
If anybody ever points out to me I’m chewing scenery, I certainly like to stop doing that.
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
When I’m on the field, I’m locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.
I try to use my debit card rather than a credit card, but I will use a credit card for big purchases because I bank with Coutts and I get points.
‘Babel’ is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.
Well, I don’t really eat cereal that much because on Weight Watchers it’s not worth the points.
I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in ‘Modern Family’ is very flattering, and I’m appreciative of that.
Limited points of view let the writer dispense – and the reader gather – information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.
It’s one of my stronger points claiming high balls. I’m tall, so that helps me. If you’re a smaller goalkeeper, crosses in England are even harder.
The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn’t come up with that idea.
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal – in this case, the ideal of the pirate – and then becomes something that’s more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.
Floating Points plays a lot of music that I don’t know, and I like geeking out and trying to find out what the tracks are. His knowledge of house music is pretty deep, and his selection is just amazing. And I think it’s a pleasure to listen to his music because it’s so perfectly produced.
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there’s always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
For us, it’s about winning. How do you do that? You score more points than the other team.
There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.
I’ve been working hard to be one of the focal points in the NBA, one of the top guys.
The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
