Quotes About Subjectivity

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

I really think everything is fair game.

When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.

Life is not the same to all—to some a blessing, to some a curse, to some not much in any way.

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present.

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present. This

This is what I see," becomes replaced by a question: "Is this what I see?" You share his hesitations about the positions of a tree or a branch; or the final shape of Mont Ste-Victoire, and the trees in front of it. Relativity is all. Doubt becomes part of the painting's subject.

While the emergence from embeddedness in the interpersonal frees one from the subjectivity of constructing one's morality on the bases of arbitrary affections and empathies, the new stage is subject to its own arbitrariness. In constructing that which subtends or coordinates the interpersonal it is likewise embedded in that constructions, the social order or social group.

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

the task of the ethnographer is not to determine "the truth" but to reveal the multiple truths apparent in others' lives.

I feel how little it concerns me, everything that's called the world, and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

Nobody ever reads the same book twice.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for....

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.

no experience, whether it is public speaking or asking your boss for a raise or swimming in a sun-soaked lake or walking along the beach on a moonlit night, is inherently painful or pleasant. It is your thinking that makes it so.

We see the world, not as it is but as we are.