Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Charlie Munger

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Cal Thomas

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Carl Jung

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Asne Seierstad

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

Denis Thatcher

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Diane Sawyer

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Dan Millman

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

Teresa de Lauretis

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Stephen Chow

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Richard Donner

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

Thomas Nagel

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.

Raoul Vaneigem

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

Jason Silva

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

Alain Resnais

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Charlie Munger

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

Peter Harris

We are pleased with initial customer reactions to our merchandise assortment changes and store service improvements. While still early, we are making visible progress with our targeted initiatives.

Martin Seligman

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

Brandon Boyd

It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face.

Elizabeth Taylor

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

Elizabeth Janeway

reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

Brian Tracy

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Kenichi Fukui

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.