#objectivity

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#buddhism #middle-path #middle-way #objectivism #objectivity

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#itself #objectivity #passion #real #truth

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#memory #objectivity #age

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. ↗

— Hal David

#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#i #lose #objectivity #subjectivity #want

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle. ↗

— Kurt Schwitters

#creativity #criticism #critics #objectivity #art

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws. ↗

— George A. Romero

#factors #few #films #flaws #forget

Objectivity is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which, as business corporations, are dedicated first of all to economic survival. It is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which often, by tradition or explicit credo, are political organs. It is a peculiar demand to make of editors and reporters who have none of the professional apparatus which, for doctors or lawyers or scientists, is supposed to guarantee objectivity. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#media #objectivity #business

Don't believe anything I say. My point of view is merely objective. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #objectivity #funny

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans. ↗

— Marv Albert

#confused #fans #fool #impossible #negativity