Reference Point Quotes

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you have found what you really want inside yourself. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. Its a reference point, not an end in itself, even though you seem to be following it. So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. The end of all your exploring will be to cease from exploration and know the place for the first time.

I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

To find where you are going, you must know where you are.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

High School Is Life’s Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

I like to have something to base a role on.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

It must be strange for any celebrity to come face to face with an impersonator. When you're that much of a personal icon and reference point that people impersonate you, it's gotta be a little weird.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.