Quotes About Objectivity

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.

You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.

Many of us are hurt emotionally, relationally, and spiritually, but because we are unaware of the extent of our wounds, we don't take steps toward healing and health. Our problem is not stupidity but a lack of objectivity. Because of this, we fail to see the reality of pain, hurt, and anger in our lives.

If the public doubts that objective journalism is possible, on what basis can journalists claim professional status?

We are all products of our worldviews - even scientists who claim objectivity.

Ekaterin's vision of him, he reminded himself, was not exactly objective. Thank God. "I've been trying to charm quaddies all day, with no noticeable success.

Most men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes – but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

A little bird whispers in my ear: Be fair! Nobody, no country, has a monopoly of untruth.

It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their competitors (by any measure of better we might wish to adopt), and gradations here will translate into very real differences in human happiness.

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

A white handkerchief in the shade may be objectively darker than a lump of coal in the sunshine. We rarely confuse the one with the other because the coal will on the whole be the blackest patch in our field of vision, the handkerchief the whitest, and it is relative brightness that matters and that we are aware of.

what was being called objectivity was really neutrality with journalists holding the victim or the weak to the same level of interrogation to which they held the perpetrator or the powerful. not surprisingly this balancing act this so-called objectivity worked in favor of the powerful.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

Speaking of honesty, if you're like me you turn on the news to get information - a set of facts. If you want opinion, you come to shows like mine, where our prejudices and biases and opinions are made known; there's no false pretenses that you're getting pure objectivity.

how you remain disciplined and objective in the market that matters most. Strict compliance with rules would help to free you from unexpected pains resulting from losses.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.

No hay en esta idea-forma del cuadrado nada personal ni evolutivo. Escapa, por emplear nuestro lenguaje moderno, de las variaciones subjetivas. El cuadrado de Pedro no difiere en nada del cuadrado de Pablo o de Diego. Única y objetiva, esta idea-forma es la misma para todos. Frente a millones de cosas cuadradas —existentes, desaparecidas o por venir—, existe una sola idea-forma de cuadrado y solo una.

Isn't the spiritual search, at its essence, a movement toward objectivity?