Quotes About Being Subjective

#1. We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.

Josh McDowell

#2. The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Manuel Puig

#3. There have been conversations here in the United States about why every ex-President opens a library when politicians do not read the books. Hello, America! Kind of explains your politics. For me, reading saved me, it brought me back.

John Lydon

#4. Thus, sociologists place these two factors - pleasure and meaning - among the first factors associated with "subjective well-being.

Frederic Lenoir

#5. The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.

T. Harv Eker

#6. Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.

Scott Adams

#7. Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Repeated studies have found that there is a very close correlation between good marriages and high subjective well-being, and between bad marriages and misery.

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. Being a good person is partially subjective, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It's whatever we deem acceptable, whatever we find ourselves worthy of.

Kim Holden

#10. A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Jack Sharkey

#11. You can't have an up without a down, a left without a right - and you can't have good times without expecting bad.

Harlan Coben

#12. I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

Steve Coogan

#13. Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

Kelley Armstrong

#14. That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

Julian Barnes

#15. I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Charlie Kaufman

#16. ...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.

Immanuel Kant

#17. I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

Christopher Nolan

#18. My photographs are subjective and personal-they'r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people's lives ... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what's important to me.

Roy DeCarava

#19. Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Mason Cooley

#20. It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. Also not being afraid to stand up for what you believe in while taking into account that you could very well be wrong, or maybe there's another way to look at it- that things are not what they seem to be, and that everything is subjective.

Surya Das

#22. I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.

Lizzy Plapinger

#23. We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

David Levithan

#24. In fact, we'd discussed marriage on several occasions just because we seemed to get along so well, but after thinking long and hard, I realized it was not in my best interest to waste my first marriage on a gay man.

Chelsea Handler

#25. Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Trent Lott

#26. I want the faith that there will be some kind of an answer, something more than these endless questions taking up so much space in my head, this feeling that nothing matters and nothing has a point.

Hannah Harrington

#27. I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Paul Banks

#28. What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

William F. Buckley Jr.