Famous Quotes & Sayings

This threat was very, very specific. It had specific time, specific object and modality. So, you know, we had to do what we did.

David Weinberger

Transparency is the new objectivity

Stephen Jay Gould

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

The object is to keep on playing, and we will do that. We struggled tonight, but we did enough things right to come out with a win.

It's an interesting object and it's raised some interesting issues, but a worrisome threat? No. We've got plenty of time.

The most important thing is that this is an objective result, it reflects the will of the voters.

Franz Kafka

You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such.

Jeff Sessions

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

James Baker

There are no uniform, objective standards here. It's all subjective,

Heywood Broun

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel

Ai Weiwei

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

Antony Gormley

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

Laurence Sterne

I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.

Polly Walker

It's her currency. She's not a bimbo, not a playmate. She has an objective in all this.

I want to see it stay as objective as possible.

That is okay by me. Our single objective has been to win the division, and so nothing changes.

Chris Hedges

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

Christie Hefner

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Chan Gailey

If I worried about all that kind of stuff, I couldn't be in this business, ... This is like being in most any other profession: You're not going to please everybody. My objective is to do what's right by the program and what's right for these young men. Other than that, I don't have a responsibility.

Mike Patton

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

Ken Auletta

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

Stacy Schiff

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of course, think the biographer's view is always something to keep in mind.

Michael Arrington

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Theodor Adorno

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Michael Schur

The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity.

Michael Nesmith

Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

Paul Eldridge

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

Paul Biya

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Pamela Stephenson

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

Gary Zukav

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

Frank Miller

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.