Quotes About Objectivity

Objectivity is obsessed with exactness and tends to be rather intolerant of deviation, almost

My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness.

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be 'lost in the objectivity of world-love', as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is 'eternal' life.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Vernunft ist die Fähigkeit, objektiv zu denken. Die ihr zugrunde liegende Haltung ist die Demut.

Whether or not the individual is healthy, is primarily not an individual matter, but depends on the structure of his society. A healthy society furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work creatively, to develop his reason and objectivity, to have a sense of self which is based on the experience of his own productive powers.

The worst thing you can be in this job is partial, invested. You just have to get good at turning that off. You have to see the bodies as bodies, not as people. They were people once, of course, fuelled by food and water, driven by electrical impulses. But then, for whatever reason, the power got turned off. The lights went out. They were transformed into meat.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin

If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider's intellectual objectivity. They must do what they need to do to get through the strategic inflection point unfettered by any emotional attachment to the past. That's what Gordon and I had to do when we figuratively went out the door, stomped out our cigarettes and returned to do the job.

There is no question that having standards and believing in them and staffing an administrative unit objectively using forecasted workloads will help you to maintain and enhance productivity.

By understanding how the same scene can appear different, depending on the viewpoint from which it is perceived, we learn to separate the accidents of viewpoint from the properties of the thing itself. By treating subjectivity objectively, we master it.

Anytime emotions are involved, you cannot come up with an impartial and objective assessment of any given problem.

When you're producing your own record, you do your best to be objective and take a step back from it from time to time.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Chris Ferguson brought up a really interesting point that I agree with, and he said science is a human endeavor. The more someone tells me that they're absolutely objective, the less I believe they are. So people need to fact-check things. They need to understand that science is easily damaged by politics and personal opinion.

It is natural for us to avoid pain and conflict. So, seeking the truth is not something we do by nature. It is a discipline, and like every discipline, is not natural. As we build our life as art, one discipline we will need to master is fluency in reality. We need to know exactly how it is. We will need to raise our level of objectivity, discernment, and awareness.

when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm.

His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.

Processing and filtering customer input allows for objectivity and promises that whatever action you decide to take is more in line with market demand than with personal opinions. Celebrate

Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals.

In terms of image-repertoire, the Photographer (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death.