We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected
I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful...
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith,...
Get on top of the obstacles and they become vantage points.
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view and assemble evidence from many different vantage points. Biological evidence in humans and in animals, toxicologic evidence, how does ...
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.
The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
