#view

Lolita... is undeniably news in the world of books. Unfortunately, it is bad news. There are two equally serious reasons why it isn't worth any adult reader’s attention. The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion. The second is that it is repulsive. ↗

— Orville Prescott

#equality

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#experience #inexperience #open-mindeness #perspective #point-of-view

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #among #besides #construction #distinct

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

It makes a difference, doesn’t it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?’ ‘Fences are fences, especially when they are in the same place. ↗

— A Room With a View

#fence #freedom #ristrictions #freedom

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#getting #healthy #inevitable #interested #learn

Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#am #been #call #called #day

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#count #different #different levels #good #good and bad

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly. ↗

— David Allen

#reviewing #work #art

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. ↗

— Sam Peckinpah

#i #interview #journalists #plagiarists #should