O Quotes
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“Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation”
“Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.”
“Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.”
“Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.”
“Objectivity of truth, reality, facts, data - they matter; otherwise, you have the 'good guys', the moral persons, in the name of what they call justice, in a fight against what they call injustice, unwittingly adopting the roles of oppressors by persecuting the innocent.”
“Objectivity will forever remain the most difficult character to master, for a man will always be guided by his primal principles.”
Source: The Depths of A Mad Mind
“Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it.”
Source: Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers
“Objectivity? I always have an objective.”
“Objectivity? I've always had an objective.”
“Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.”
“Objects and Objectives
To contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic of the resourcefulness of man. Oil taken from the depths of the very earth. Distillation of said raw material. Chemical processes. Pollution. Creating a product providing hours of constructive play. For children all over the world. Teaching our young. Through enjoyment. Preparing them for further resourcefulness. The progress of our kind.
A book. Many books. Proud liners of walls. Fingered. Taken out with great care. Held open. Gazed upon / into with something like awe. A medium for the recording of and communication of knowledge. From the many to the many. Down the ages. And of art. And of love. But do you hear the trees outside whispering? Do their voices haunt you? No wonder. They are calling for their brothers. Pulped. Pressed. Coated. Printed. Bound. And for their other brothers which made the shelves to hold them. And for the roof over them as well.
From the very beginning - everything at cost. A cave man, to get food, had to deal with the killing. And the bones from one death proved very useful for implementing the death of another.”
Source: SPAN
“Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.”
Source: I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon
“Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.”
“Objects are better than text at conveying narrative”
“Objects are easily given, but genuine attention, unwavering loyalty, honest effort, and truth are gifts whose worth cannot be measured.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.”
“Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.”
“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.”
“Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.”
“Objects damage pictures.”
“Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.”
“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”
“Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.”
“Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.”
“Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it, a pure mirror. By dhyan, this purity of the mind is indicated. So first, no object should be in the mind. Mind must remain alone without thinking about anything - with no thought, just a consciousness, just an awareness, just an alertness. This alertness without any object is meditation.”
“Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.”
“Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.”
“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.”
“Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.”
Source: Works: with a life of the author
“Objects possess no charm or ugliness of their own; it is the person we are with that either turns a desert into a garden or makes the finest day feel dull.”
“Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.”
“Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.”
Source: Nausea
“Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.”
“Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.”
“Objektif bakımdan, ezilenlerin teselli olarak bir Tanrı'ya inanmaları, halk yığınlarını mücadeleden uzaklaştırmaktan başka bir sonuç vermez.”
Source: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
“Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.”
Source: Sinew of the Social Species
“Obligation is a prison. To get out of it, we must serve our time.”
“Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.”
“Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.”
“Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
“Obligation was dangerous because it muddled the mind.”
Source: The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology
“Obligations may be universal or particular.”
Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
“Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.”
“Oblige me by telling me where I am."
"That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.”
Source: Lilith
“Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.”
“Obliging each other, that is the only enjoyment to be derived from having a human life.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization