Subjective Quotations

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

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

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts of quite debatable and subjective political and cultural assumptions about the world. And with some noble exceptions, 'The Times,' by design or otherwise, has long served the interests of the same set of elite and powerful factions.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

'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.

In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I mean? I think there can be an art in the way people live their lives, and art can be a gift someone gives to somebody.

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

We believe that in reaching its decision, the ASA made subjective inferences which are not related to the specific claims made in our advertisements.

What homeowners often don't know or realize is that this process is a subjective one. Essentially, your assessment is one person's opinion about the value of your house.

I believe that what has happened in West Tisbury is going to have echoes for years to come around the ways we raise property taxes in Massachusetts. I think Bill Graham has shown us that there are huge flaws - frightening flaws - in the way towns conduct this type of business. There can be nothing arbitrary - and there should be nothing subjective - about the process of taxation. That's been a cornerstone of our government and our society.

For subjective indicators of pain, obese people indicated similar levels of pain to non-obese people. But when we looked at objective indicators, we found that the obese group had a lower threshold for pain.

Hitting is such a subjective thing. You have to find out what works for you. Those are big situations. You're not always going to come through but mentally you have to lock it in.

It becomes, therefore, the most important of all considerations with what character we invest in the Universal Mind; for since our relation to it is purely subjective it will infallibly bear to us exactly that character which we impress upon it; in other words it will be to us exactly what we believe it to be.

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

I think that when you have a system that is based on such a subjective criteria, and it remains subjective no matter what the training is about, that you will inevitably have abuse and racial profiling.

I will have discussions with our athletics directors soon and will recommend that we eliminate the subjective element of the tiebreaker and replace it with objective criteria.

Our results demonstrate that chronic noise exposure is associated with a mildly to moderately increased risk of heart attack. The increase appears more closely associated with actual sound levels rather than with subjective annoyance. However, there were differences between men and women, and these need further investigation.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how the body responds to pain stimuli.

I was very impressed with the culture of the committee. You leave your hat at the door, so to speak, and do the best that you can with the material that's in front of you. There's a lot of information and the data is used in a way that's very efficient in terms of comparing teams. Then you have subjective impressions and the final analysis.

While the DOJ maintains long-standing, black-and-white parameters to seek out monopolies, the FCC tends to undertake a far more subjective and changeable analysis.

We recall how, starting with purely practical and quasi-physiological groups, the child begins by elaborating subjective groups, then arrives at objective groups, and only then becomes capable of representative groups.

Yes, that is a subjective phrase, but I believe every officer that signs it understands its scope. But that's not to mean that the Police Department becomes Big Brother. If your private life adversely or negatively impacts this profession, you're probably committing an ethical transgression.

The conventional wisdom is that Tom Cruise shot himself in both feet and the stomach. And he's trying to correct that, ... We have yet to see any hard evidence that he's hurt himself professionally. Clearly he's more controversial and less popular, but that's a subjective judgment.

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

When you look at other defensive ends who have been inducted prior, you look at the hard numbers, and you do say, this is a subjective thing.

Expectations of decreased pain powerfully reduced both the subjective experience of pain and activation of pain-related brain regions.

Exposed populations have anxiety levels that were twice as high as controls and they were 3-4 times more likely to report multiple unexplained physical symptoms and subjective poor health than were unaffected control groups.

Family' is a subjective term. She (Burg) would characterize it as a woman with two children having a relationship with another woman.

While we are disappointed ... they specifically noted we are free to return to the federal courts to present our constitutional challenges to the selective and subjective manual recount process at an appropriate time in the future,

There could be some very subjective calls made. Hopefully, we don't have to make a call.

We find the subjective voice, the first-person voice, and that takes care of the problem of what people need to say and the form they need to say it in.

You have a different kind of experience -- a different quality of experience -- when you see red, when you see green, when you hear middle C, when you taste chocolate. Whenever you're conscious, whenever you have a subjective experience, it feels like something.

To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.

Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.

Bifurcation is subjective and will come down to actuarial judgment. Actuaries at different companies could easily come up with different opinions on how much risk is transferred by a contract.

At the end of the day, each committee member has to make a subjective judgment about the teams.

There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.

The technology and the subjective and objective things that go into a polygraph aren't answered by him having a press conference, ... I am happy that he says he is going to give that to the Metropolitan Police and the FBI, and we'll examine that ... but again, that's not normal techniques.

The Tao of Natural Breathing by Dennis Lewis is filled with drawings, insights and guidance from an objective and subjective internal organic awareness. Dennis walks his talk and knows well the terrain. This approach towards understanding common denominators of breathing will guide many towards health and well being as well as help dissolve cross cultural barriers. We ARE one and breath IS life. Easily one of the top five books on breathing.

The old system was based on subjective factors and was fundamentally flawed. The question of whether the benefit levels now are adequate or not that's something that the governor and the Legislature need to answer.

The old system was based on subjective factors and was fundamentally flawed.

Some disabilities are inherently prone to subjective rating decisions, especially conditions such as PTSD where much of the information needed to make a rating decision is not physically apparent. This subjectivity leads to inconsistency.

A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.

Anything that makes the sleep wake interface more distinct will work as a cure for the subjective insomniac

You want the card to do the speaking for you when you're not around. When someone has a Rolodex of cards and they're deciding who to call, it's a subjective thing. So you want to make sure your card works the way you want it to.

There was harsh, intimidating language that appears to be very subjective and open-ended. ... The club almost has the right to do whatever it wants, at its option. That's how complicated the language is. The other clubs simply have one line that states it is subject to the player passing a physical. That's what Pittsburgh's document has.

As we increased the riskiness of a target, the neurons' activity would go up in the same way the monkey's frequency of choosing that target would go up. It was amazing the degree to which the activity of these neurons paralleled the behavior of the monkeys. They looked like they were signaling, in fact, the monkeys' subjective valuation of that target.

As we go forward in attempting to control bump drafting in those areas, there's going to be some very subjective calls being made. That's the reason we'd like to get this under way as quickly as possible. Hopefully we don't have to make a call. But if we do make a call in the twins, it wouldn't be quite as painful as having to make it in the Daytona 500.

It's a very subjective game, and you've got to have people around you that you know and can trust and count on. I respect that part of the game and understand it, but it doesn't make it any easier.

It is very difficult to transport one story into another culture without including the subjective viewpoint of the editor who transmits it. It may be difficult to understand this work as it existed in a time without the social rules we live with today.

I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,

The USDA may want to consider expanding the scope of the subjective yield surveys it uses in making the forecasts in order to incorporate a wider range of market and industry participants.

Sleep onset feedback therapy works to help subjective insomniacs perceive the difference between sleep and wakefulness.

That said, the people who study subjective well-being will tell you that most people are pretty happy.

The fascinating thing about the committee is that in the final analysis, you have to exercise your own subjective judgment. It's so easy to just latch onto numbers. You could have watched a team play whose numbers really don't truly illustrate how good it is.

I'm way down the scale in terms of technical ability, ... But my emotional connection is very apparent. A lot of jazz is very internalized, and sometimes it's more about the passion you put into it. It's a really subjective thing.

Investors care about product quality to the extent that it definitively correlates with financial performance. The reality is, however, that it's very hard to draw a direct correlation between product quality -- maybe because it's so subjective -- and financial performance in the newspaper industry.

All experience is subjective.

Movies are very subjective.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Happiness is hard because it's very subjective. I know the people that seem happiest to me, but whether they are actually - what they're really like inside is really hard to say.

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

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes?

All I would say is the talks are constructive and progress has been made. But I'm not going to speculate on how close an agreement is. In my experience in talks like these, close and near are awfully subjective terms.

A History of Violence does not qualify for certification under the tax-credit system, and does not qualify for certification under the broadcast system, and can't get a CRTC number. If we started being more subjective about the nominations, the whole debate every year would be where do you draw the line? You'd end up with a system where anything a Canadian does anywhere counts as Canadian. We could have Jim Carrey movies up for best picture.

And that, by the way, is not a subjective analysis -- that's the analysis of any environmentalist.

The company used subjective and value-based criteria not related to job duties to determine who to hire.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

I know music is subjective.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

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

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

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

The camera is as subjective as we are.

Change is always subjective.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.