Objectives Quotes - Page 40

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman

Objectivity, Doe, Cosmos

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You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Brian De Palma

Couple, Thinking, Objectivity

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More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

Alfred Adler

Reality, Objectivity, Important

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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

Georg Simmel

Subjectivity, Energy, Culture

Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can give objective answers, yes or no, to questions whether events are causally connected.

Gavin de Beer

Science, Giving, Events

Sir Gavin De Beer (1956). “Science and the humanities”

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He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit.

Olaf Stapledon

Inspirational, Life, Intelligent

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A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.

Jiang Zemin

Strong, Political Will, Nuclear

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When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

Barbara Tuchman

People, Interesting, Effort

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Why aren't people more successful? Because most people do not select and pursue a vision without regard for other objectives. Most people shift from one activity to another without any focused or directed purpose, naively assuming that things will take care of themselves or will be taken care of by others. George Bernard Shaw said, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

Ari Kiev

Success, Taken, People

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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

Waylon Jennings

War, White, Guy

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The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.

George W. Bush

Wife, Sound, Firsts

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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence
— as not-bound to life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Order, Risk, Facts

Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

Ronald Reagan

Country, Determination, Commitment

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Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

Mike Tyson

Crush, Fire, Rolling

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I accept the proposition that...“to judge is an exercise of power” and because...“there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives – no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging,” I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.

Sonia Sotomayor

Exercise, Color, People

"A Latina Judge’s Voice". Sonia Sotomayor’s Speech at the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal’s Symposium, www.law.berkeley.edu. October 26, 2001.

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My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. ... But melancholy Danes from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.

Hayden Carruth

Plato, Men, Personality

"Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays".

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Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

Stephen Chbosky

Subjective

"Biography/ Personal quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

Goal, Leader, Risk

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There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Jeanette Winterson

Emotional, Thinking, Doors

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A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our culture-so outer-directed, "objective" or extraverted-this is already heresy. This is self-mastering thinking, centered in what has been well-tested as certainties: autarkia or self-rule.

Kenny Smith

Philosophy, Thinking, Feet

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The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its final solution nor even whether a final objective answer can be expected at all. "Mathematizing" may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality, whose historical decisions defy complete objective rationalization.

Hermann Weyl

Men, Discovery, Decision

Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

Bill Drayton

Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

Vladimir Lenin

Men, World, Consciousness

"Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 38, p. 85-241 ("Conspectus of Hegel's Science of Logic" - Book III : Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Notion), 1976.

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The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

Michael Dibdin

Real, Trying, Fiction

FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from Nov 27, 2011

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It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

Martin Van Creveld

War, Mean, Fighting

Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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