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• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Self, People, Imagination

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• It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.

  Criss Jami

  Sacrifice, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.85, Criss Jami

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• Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Vaccines, Fda

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• I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Self, Quality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Tunnels, Self, Movement

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Perspective, Firsts, Consciousness

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

  Jimenez Lai

  Philosophy, Agreement, Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

  David Cross

  Thinking, Hopefully, Stills

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.

  James S.A. Corey

  Taken, Ideas, Important

  James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• I feel like success is really subjective. You could win a school talent show and be like "I was successful", or you could get a Number One in New Zealand and be like "I was successful', or you could win a Grammy and be like "I was successful".

  Thomston

  School, Successful, Winning

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• Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Order, Appreciate, Psychology

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

  Thomas Nagel

  Views, Subjectivity, Consciousness

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

  Willa Cather

  Women, Writing, Wine

  Willa Cather (1993). “Willa Cather”

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• It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.

  Orison S. Marden

  Ambition, Reality, Expression

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• Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.

  Jennifer James

  Spiritual, Business, Communication

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.

  Bryan Cranston

  Real, Self, Who I Am

  "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.

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• When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and therefore I learn my mistakes through others, and also my assets through others.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Mistake, Helping Others, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Song, Writing

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• Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Interest

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.99, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

  Adam Levine

  People, Statistics, Normal

  "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex". Book by Judith Levine, 2003.

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• The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Reality, Giving

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• It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Running, Fun, Real

  Sheldon B. Kopp (1985). “Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life”, Tarcher

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• whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.

  Bernie Glassman

  Change, Judgment

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