Subjective Quotes - Page 13

• Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  Gary Bauer

  Law, Judging, Quality

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• Independence is a very subjective assessment.

  P. Chidambaram

  Assessment, Independence

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Reality, Views

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• Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

  Crispin Glover

  Eight, Would Be, Cinema

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

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• Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

  Jacques Audiard

  Beautiful

  "Love For Outsiders; Jacques Audiard On The Romantic Thriller 'Read My Lips'". Interview with Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. July 09, 2002.

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• There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

  Danny Huston

  Art, Example, Problem

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Feelings

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• Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

  Todd Phillips

  Twilight, Thinking, People

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

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• Change is always subjective.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

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• Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Reflection

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• The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Beauty, Matter

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• Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

  Abraham Maslow

  Experience, World, Internals

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• In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Two, Priorities, United

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.151

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• I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

  Will Arnett

  Thinking, Comedy, Should

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Thinking, Progress

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• The camera is as subjective as we are.

  Bertrand Russell

  Cameras

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.168, Routledge

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• I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

  Christopher Nolan

  Writing, Trying, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Judging, Merit

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• Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.

  Niels Bohr

  Independent, Judgement, Development

  Niels Bohr, Leon Rosenfeld (1999). “Collected works”

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• The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Strong, Thinking, Keys

  "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1972.

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• When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

  Lance Henriksen

  Watches, Want, Habit

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.

  Tibor Kalman

  Real, Communication, Ideas

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• In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Past, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Objectivity

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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