Objectively Quotes

#1. Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

Paul Darrow

#3. We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Elizabeth Thornton

#4. Actually, each mental image of the world system is and remains limited, objectively by the historical situation and subjectively by its author's physical and mental constitution.

Friedrich Engels

#5. You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.

George Rodger

#6. In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Stanislav Grof

#7. Maybe nobody ever saw themselves completely objectively. Every self-image needs a flattering mirror or two.

Victor LaValle

#8. A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. My way of life is objectively better because mine has Wi-Fi and Netflix.

Madeleine Roux

#10. There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.

Ryan Holiday

#11. Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

Philip Kitcher

#12. Just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of lawbreakers - and then you cash in on guilt.

Ayn Rand

#13. Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

Emmett F. Fields

#14. People are not always what they say there are - or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us objectively, and heave reason to be thankful that He is called the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Forgiving

Charles Le Gai Eaton

#15. Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Think objectively.
Think operationally.
Think optimistically.
Think outstandingly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

Chuck Klosterman

#18. It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.

Algernon Blackwood

#19. The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

Vilfredo Pareto

#20. You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.

Pearl Zhu

#21. What the narrator comes to realize is that the past "cannot be described objectively" and that her present will always mediate her past.

Linda Hutcheon

#22. Sometimes people make objectively wrong decisions, you can see them do it, and you aren't sure you wouldn't make the same wrong decision in their place.

Hugh Dodwell

#23. The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Raymond Chandler

#24. During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Brian Koslow

#25. Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.

Anne McCaffrey

#26. I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

Agnes Varda

#27. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.

Roy H. Williams

#28. Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.

Thomas J. Paprocki

#29. I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

Rebecca Goldstein

#30. What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

Philip K. Dick

#31. In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind the unconscious is objective, manifesting itself mainly in the form of contrary feelings, fantasies, emotions, impulses and dreams, none of which one makes oneself but which come upon one objectively. Even

C. G. Jung

#32. I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching of the Roman Congregations is about what I consider to be their fundamentally flawed premise of the objectively disordered nature of the inclination.

James Alison

#33. Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#34. A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

Tulsi Gabbard

#35. I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Tom Stoppard

#36. We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

Jacque Fresco

#37. Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

Richard A. Falk

#38. So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

W. H. Auden

#39. One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Alain De Botton

#40. A big marker in my life was realizing you could record sound: I liked to make little recordings and then go back and listen to them. It becomes something outside of you then and you can listen to it objectively.

Josh Garrels

#41. Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Marvin Bower

#42. Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

Bill Gates

#43. Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Soren Kierkegaard

#44. When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.

Michelle Forbes

#45. Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

David Chalmers

#46. If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

David Attenborough

#47. True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

Zola Jesus

#48. Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

Peter Senge

#49. The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.

Robert Monroe

#50. I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

Charlie Kaufman

#51. [T]he object of any subject is nothing else than the subject's own nature taken objectively.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#52. Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

Neal Shusterman

#53. As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people and we need the state to achieve that end.

Stefan Molyneux

#54. It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their competitors (by any measure of "better" we might wish to adopt), and gradations here will translate into very real differences in human happiness.

Sam Harris

#55. If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.

Miguel Syjuco

#56. The "present" does not exist in an objective sense any more than "here" exists objectively, but the microscopic interactions within the world prompt the emergence of temporal phenomena within a system (for instance, ourselves) that interacts only through the medium of a myriad of variables. Our

Carlo Rovelli

#57. Whereas maximizers might do better objectively than satisficers, they tend to do worse subjectively.

Barry Schwartz

#58. Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

Albert Einstein

#59. The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#60. The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

Sigmund Freud

#61. There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Alex North

#62. On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.

Anatol Rapoport

#63. Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

Christopher Atkins

#64. Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#65. Sadistic serial killers feel their victims' pain in exactly the same way that you or I might feel it. They feel it cognitively and objectively. And they feel it emotionally and subjectively, too. But the difference between them and us is that they commute that pain to their own subjective pleasure.

Kevin Dutton

#66. When we are self-aware, we are able to reach beyond ourselves and objectively assess others ... allowing us to meet them where they are at, seeing into their needs and struggles, so we can understand the way they experience life, even if it is vastly different from the way we experience, our own.

Jaeda DeWalt

#67. Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

Alex Berenson

#68. If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.

Kathleen Rooney

#69. My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

Ted Koppel

#70. The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.

Fulton J. Sheen

#71. It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert; a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position.

Criss Jami

#72. Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion ofthe ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.

Richard Chase

#73. More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Ray Dalio

#74. Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Ha-Joon Chang

#75. The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

Sufjan Stevens

#76. The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.

Judy Greer

#77. Measure thinker performance and doer performance differently but objectively.

Pearl Zhu

#78. The nuclear family must be destroyed ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

Linda Gordon

#79. The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.

Benjamin Hoff

#80. We believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge a better society.

Yuval Noah Harari

#81. If all our objectively valid synthetic judgments are analysed, it turns out that they never consist in mere intuitions that are brought together in a judgment through mere comparison.Always, a pure concept of the understanding has been added to the concepts that are abstracted from intuition

Anonymous

#82. I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hunter S. Thompson

#83. Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

George Orwell

#84. It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Richard P. Feynman

#85. We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Piers Anthony

#86. It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

Ha-Joon Chang

#87. Our perceptions take on richness and depth as a result of all the things that we learn. The eye is not a camera that objectively takes a photo of the "world out there." Rather, what the eye sees is determined by what the brain has learned. This suggests a short mantra: learn more, see more.

Richard Restak

#88. I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

Ricky Williams

#89. Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons due to the distance afforded by the fantastical elements than they are a story revolving around horrors committed by human beings.

Joseph Abbruscato

#90. Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode
a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

Christos Yannaras

#91. Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Brian Tracy

#92. I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

Rainbow Rowell

#93. We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

Julia Child

#94. There are some who insist that Truth and therefore Reality is an either/or proposition, thereby deluding themselves as to what is Objectively True and Real".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#95. The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist objectively, but their true mode of existence is like a dream: apparent yet insubstantial.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

#96. Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Aldo Leopold

#97. It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#98. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them ... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.

Michael A. Singer

#99. But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.

Rick Allen

#100. I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.

Jenny Nimmo