“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.” GivingWritingTryingReasonUseSoundStylePerceptionOrdinarySentencesObjectivesReason WhyFaithfulParagraphTransmitBeing FaithfulSynonym Author:Martin Amis
“Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.” GivingJobsLostProductsFinancialCreditObjectivesAgencyAccurateRatingMinnesotans Author:Al Franken
“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.” GivingHumansHas BeensArtFeelingsFormValuesSocialMoralMoralityArt IsIdealsAimSignificantObjectivesAestheticNever ChangeSubordinatesGood ArtHuman ValuesMoral ValuesObjective TruthSocial Values Author:Herbert Read
“I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.” WayGivingObstaclesObjectives Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.” IfsGivingMindFirstsHeartWarBodyPassionWinningLosesBattleObjectives Author:Greg Plitt