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Quotes About Objective

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
~ Max Beckmann
PSG's ambition of the Champions League is also mine. I know they have a great project. I want to participate in this project and reach their objective of winning the Champions League.
~ Angel Di Maria
Well, I'm eventually gonna take the Daryl Hannah parts.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
So when searching for the "absolute existence," we need to acknowledge that our relationship to "reality" is to consider our perception of physical conditions as objective and real, and our perception of the mind's activities as subjective and just made up.
~ Peter Ralston
Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise to a certain kind of space. ("Introduction")
~ Phil Baker
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
similarity in experience does not necessarily make a juror sympathetic . . . [but] may lead to less objective and more harsh responses.
~ Phyllis Chesler
problème « objectif » et à en faire son affaire (on peut penser à l'exemple, analysé par Panofsky, du problème de la rose de la façade Ouest, légué par Suger aux architectes qui inventeront l'art gothique) que se détermine la solution spécifique, produite à partir d'un art d'inventer déjà inventé ou grâce à l'invention d'un nouvel art d'inventer.
~ Pierre Bourdieu
I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
~ Pat Toomey
It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
~ David Harsanyi
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
~ George A. Moore
The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.
~ Jon Krakauer
Are they both special? He cracked up and said, Of course their pop is gonna say they're special. But objectively. What's that? Like, factually. Truthfully. The truth is I'm their pop.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
When you leave here, don't forget why you came.
~ Adlai Stevenson
By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.
~ Jean Chatzky
I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think, naturally, my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry, I became very objective and analytical of myself early on, and I find myself doing that in everything.
~ Keke Palmer
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
~ Polly Toynbee
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Rationalism and sectarism then are the most dangerous enemies of our church at the present time. They are both but different sides of the one and the same principle—a one-sided false subjectivity, sundered from the authority of the objective. Rationalism is theoretic sectarism; sectarism is practical rationalism.
~ R. Scott Clark
There is a sacred science, and for thousands of years countless inquisitive people have sought in vain to penetrate its "secrets." It is as if they attempted to dig a hole in the sea with an ax. The tool must be of the same nature as the objective to be worked upon. Spirit is found only with spirit, and esoterism is the spiritual aspect of the world, inaccessible to cerebral intelligence. Those who profess to reveal the esoterism of such teachings are charlatans.
~ R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Our modern Empire of Desire manufactures endless appetite while simultaneously denying that anything is objectively good, beautiful, or desirable. The result is not great yearning or passion, but acedia or sloth, a pervasive 'noonday demon.
~ R.J. Snell
In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability.
~ William H. McRaven
I've never been a blind romantic.
~ Sandra Bullock
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
~ Edward Hirsch