Top 1200 Focal Point Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.

I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.

I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the highest point of understanding, the highest point of evolution. That's why I have started calling laughter "the prayer time."

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point.

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don't be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.

The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana

The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have to make something critical to make it meaningful, to make it transformative.

I am not an alcoholic. I'm a social catalyst. People pay me to illustrate for other partygoers the chemical process involved in transforming from one persona into another drunker, more fun one. It's a matter of going from dull point A to exciting point B. And I'm a raving success at it. So successful that sometimes I wind up at Mysterious Point C.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

There's no greater feeling than moving a man from Point A to Point B, against his will.

The one point gamers all hate is the point where they have to put the controller down.

Before I point a finger at anyone, I have to point it at myself first.

There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide your with a template you can live your day from.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

I have never seen someone point after point that just gives it everything.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt suitable countermeasures against the focal points of sabotage. Israel will continue to take action to prevent any and all attempts to perpetrate sabotage within her territory. There will be no immunity for any state which aids or abets such acts.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.