We’ve collected the best Standpoint Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Vivek Ramaswamy, Yancy Butler, Will Arnett, Rick Santorum, Mark Messier. Use them as an inspiration.
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From a personal standpoint, I consider myself much more of an accidental entrepreneur. I was involved in the entrepreneurship club at Harvard, but I heard of it only because it was new on campus.
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Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It’s something that reflects nature and reflects God and God’s will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it’s beneficial for society.
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I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.
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Our challenge is this sport needs to be more diverse throughout its makeup of stakeholders, participants, and fans. We’re doing a number of things from a multicultural standpoint on and off the track to achieve that. Over time, that’s going to be a big opportunity for NASCAR.
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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents‘ worth of time.
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We’re certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it – we’re interested in maximizing our return, but we’re also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.
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From a pure basketball standpoint, it’s hard to say you wouldn’t want Kawhi Leonard on your team.
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From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
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From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
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A lot of people are coming down on people taking old rock ‘n’ roll songs and making commercials out of them, but from a songwriter‘s standpoint, I don’t mind because it helps pay my rent.
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The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it’s within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term ‘instrumental music’ you think it’s real serious stuff and everybody‘s playing a million notes and it’s about playing fast. That’s not what we do.
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I’ve started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.
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From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.
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I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, ‘What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?’
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I approach directing from an actor’s standpoint.
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From my standpoint, I feel like I’m at the start of my career, I’m only 23-years-old but I have been doing it for 10 years.
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I think ‘GoodFellas’ is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint – to me, it’s just a perfect movie.
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There’s no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.
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Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.
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From a global health standpoint, we will look to prevent future pandemics and hold organizations, like the World Health Organization, accountable for their role in providing thorough, accurate information to the world.
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From a professional standpoint, our transformation of the labor landscape at scale through technology with Levo is the highest and best direction of my energy.
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Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it’s a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
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That’s the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint.
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I wouldn’t be anywhere close to where I am today without my pops. I think a lot of a football player‘s makeup is mental, and I’ve been blessed to have someone to learn from. Not just from a technical standpoint, but everything he taught me about being a hard worker, a teammate and just being a football player.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer’s standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
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You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
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I’ve grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having on our society.
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I’m a big proponent of playing all sports when you’re growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint to a movement standpoint. Certainty with tennis, you get the lateral quickness more than anything.
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I’m certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I’m trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.
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From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens‘ vote is not diluted.
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The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It’s important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don’t know why.
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Art – the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.
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In California, they’re not making any more land. And with the high cost of land, from a business standpoint, being able to move your goods quickly and cheaply makes Compton an attractive place to be.
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I’d say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.
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Scott Skiles was a master tactician – they’re all masters, but he is elite. He knew how to manipulate his team from an X’s-and-O’s standpoint.
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Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can’t not like who I’m playing.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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Realistically, my favorite thing really is going out and seeing the different problems that people have in different geographical areas. Not just from a standpoint of the area that they may be in or the city they may be in but the different kind of car culture or motorcycle culture there is.
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Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.
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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.
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
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I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn’t given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
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Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpoint, from the premise that it is going to continue to exist, and if it is going to continue to exist, should it be shoved underground, or should it be regulated?
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I’ve always liked to run. I did it from a conditioning standpoint, you know. I really enjoyed running, and I do it to stay in shape.
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I don’t care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can’t do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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We changed the University of Houston in 23 short months more than anybody thought was possible. Not just from a wins and losses standpoint but from an infrastructure standpoint as well.
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What the mayors care about is, ‘How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?’
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I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn’t have everybody in the tournament.
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From a personal standpoint I really like that Bernie Sanders is making so much noise.
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You shouldn’t vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they’re not professionals; they don’t know the right thing to say to you, and putting them in that position is tricky. You have to look at it from their standpoint. It’s so much pressure.
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I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.
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I think I’ve done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Going through your reads, there is always an answer. And if you consistently, from a mental standpoint as a quarterback, go through your reads, you always give your team a chance to win.
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I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn’t thinking about the future from God’s standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.
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From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.
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It is unusual for a coach to call you, just from a fundamental standpoint and say ‘hey we’re watching what you do.’
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My parents didn’t have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
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We all say that we want to repeal Obamacare, and we would all love a clean, full repeal. But the truth is, sometimes it’s kind of like making sausage. You have to do it one step at a time. You’ve got to approach it from the standpoint that you make substantial gains today, and then the next opportunity, you make more.
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I’ve always been the point guard, always been the floor general out there, and it’s helped me see things I didn’t previously see on offense from a shooting guard standpoint.
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The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is – when there is a new environmental challenge, how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.
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Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there’s a multitude of different endings.
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I’ll continue on the path I’ve been taking, feet on the ground, describing people’s lives, describing people’s emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
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Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players‘ perspective is valuable.
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When I talk about football from a studio standpoint, I try to cut through the minutia and get to the point.
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The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, ‘Well, they’ll figure it out!’
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From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
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I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.
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From a planning standpoint, you want to surround a first-year head coach with quality coaches at all levels.
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Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company‘s going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the ‘gut-feel’ of building out their business.
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There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint.
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Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
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From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that’s really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it’s actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.
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I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We’ve taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
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I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
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Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It’s not my position to judge. It’s God’s position to judge.
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Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and – which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.
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I’ve never done this from a standpoint of, ‘I want to be famous.’ I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.
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I look at each episode in two ways – from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint – this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.
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WrestleMania is a major event and that’s an understatement obviously, but it’s a major event from the standpoint that many other companies use WrestleMania as a source of creating new revenue.
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I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director’s importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
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Sponsorships and marketing are oftentimes pretty short-lived. From a company’s standpoint, they’re often not looking to do tremendously long contracts. They’re always trying to catch the next big thing.
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I tell her all the time I’d gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it’s not the most important thing at all.
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When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family – not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together.
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From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.
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I’m more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.
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From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you’ve got to add some parts along the way.
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Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.
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People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don’t. I don’t want people to think that I’m trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that’s cheap filmmaking.
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The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you’re caring about.
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I think everyone at some point in their career would like the opportunity to go back to their alma mater, but from a timing standpoint, it’s just never worked.
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Working at the ad agency showed me just how possible things were from a production standpoint.
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Most people think of us as this flamboyant airline, but we’re really very conservative from the fiscal standpoint.
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I can’t dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.
