“The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.” IdeasIntellectualAbsolutesStructureObjectivesSubjective Author:Frederick C. Beiser
“The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."” PeopleWayMindKindLaughingFiguresObjectivesMaking People Laugh Author:John C. Reilly
“I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.” ThinkingFeelsFactsStrongViewsFairsPoint Of ViewObjectivesArticlesNew Yorkers Author:Alex Gibney
“Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily ... Those are the goals. It's very simple. We achieve that by making certain that all conflict takes place in the Eastern Hemisphere so we don't have conflict here.” FirstsWellsStatesAbleAmericaCertainNationsGoalSimpleUnitedUnited StatesAchieveConflictApproachObjectivesPeacefulEasternProsperousNorth AmericaHemisphereGeopolitical Author:George Friedman
“Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.” FactsPoliticalDecisionTeamPaintingMethodStrategyObjectivesDecision MakingRealisticBiographiesRivalsPortrayalDoriGood Political Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.” ScreensObjectivesMealsRestaurants Author:Robert Sietsema
“Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".” HumansProblemSocialAnimalSituationCasesEthicsCapacityObjectivesFeaturesSocial LifeAnything Goes Author:Philip Kitcher
“I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.” WorldEnoughWantedOrderStrongAmbitionObjectivesEnterprise Author:Rei Kawakubo
“Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective.” WantYearsSocialRealizingToo MuchMediaHavensInformationEasierExpectationsYears AgoWeightHarderSocial MediaSpeedObjectivesNew ThingsToo Much Information Author:Rei Kawakubo
“As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.” WritingSongObjectivesProducers Author:Eric Bachmann
“One should share their dreams with others right away in the morning. One can use my Lightning Dreamwork process. First, the person shares the dream without being interrupted. Then each person shares their thoughts about the dream by saying, "If it were my dream," not presuming to tell the person what the dream means in an objective way. Lastly, the dreamer is helped to make an action plan for embodying the energy and guidance from the dream.” IfsWayShouldFirstsMeanPersonsUseDreamActionEnergyProcessMorningPlansShareObjectivesGuidanceDreamerLightningInterruptedPresumingDreamworks Author:Robert Moss
“I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.” KindFilmPrinciplesStudyEmotionalObjectivesSentimentalSubterfuge Author:Louis Garrel
“What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we’ve got to have a clear objective...” Can DoClearHavensKeysSafeWeaponsNuclearObjectivesAlsAfghanistanNuclear WeaponsPakistanSafe Haven Author:Barack Obama
“Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.” NeedsYearsHas BeensTwoDoneEyeUsedEasyStuffSpaceMetsObjectivesUsed To BeTwo YearsCandyApolloMercuryEye Candy Author:Peter Diamandis
“There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.” WayCertainDifferencesBrainExampleDegreesResponseObjectivesDistinctionStimulus Author:Antonio Damasio
“From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.” WantTryingImportantAsksEasyCompanyClearFiveFocusMinutesPerspectiveKeysBusyProductivityObjectivesDesksEmailFive MinutesDeckClearingPrioritization Author:Ivanka Trump
“There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each.” ThreeKeysMarketingConversionObjectivesEngagementMetricsContent Marketing Author:Michael Brenner
“When I go back to the Quran I see that the context of Revelation is creation in its entirety. The universe is a Revelation and this of course includes nature, plants and animals. In other words, what is coming from the Quran as rules and objectives are set within the larger scheme of the universe and nature as part of Creation.” UniverseCoursesAnimalCreationPlantObjectivesRevelationsSchemesQuranEntiretyPlants And Animals Author:Tariq Ramadan
“If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective.” IfsLooksUnderstandingClearCreationObviousObjectivesDestroying Author:Tariq Ramadan
“As Muslims the way we show respect to the creator is by respecting creation and this is why we have to reconcile ourselves with the objectives of the Revelation and the objective is really to honor nature as part of Creation.” WayShowsCreationHonorCreatorObjectivesRevelationsReconcileShow Respect Author:Tariq Ramadan
“To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing with questions of objectives and purpose, which is completely different.” WayDifferentPurposeMoralObjectivesDogmatic Author:Tariq Ramadan
“We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.” MindProcessUnderstandingForgetCasesPathLimitsEgoIslamObjectivesObsessionLiberationLiberating Author:Tariq Ramadan
“When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.” WholeRightsDestructionObjectivesTraditionalHomosexualTraditional FamilyHomosexual Marriage Author:Rafael Cruz
“My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.” FindingsIndividualityObjectivesVocalist Author:Juliette Lewis
“I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.” PeopleThinkingSometimesYoungGrowing UpGrowingImaginePersonalityIndustryObjectivesAnnoyingEntertainingPerfectionist Author:Keke Palmer
“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."” IfsWantMindMightJobsUsedTurnsGrowthCan DoObjectsInvolvedCostDrugCreatingAspectMachinesSafetyVery GoodIllObjectivesConsumersScareMilkCowsOrganismsAddictGood JobEcosystemsHormonesDrug AddictHealth And SafetyMonocultureBovineGrowth Hormones Author:Vandana Shiva
“The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.” PeopleIfsWayLongHas BeensSkillsCapableStandardsGoldDemocratCurrentsRageDebateImmigrationBest WayObjectivesDependentVotersProvidingGold Standard Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obviously, given the objective that we have, what I would hope is that people would be able to see that actually we had reduced the numbers of people, the net number of people, coming into the country. People would, presumably, see that, but it's difficult to say how.” PeopleCountryWould BeAbleGivenDifficultNumbersObjectives Author:Theresa May
“I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.” ThinkingLevelsObjectives Author:Karan Bajaj
“I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life.” IfsThinkingKnowsActionIndividualMy OwnBuddhismObjectivesMy Own LifePurifyingObjective Truth Author:Karan Bajaj
“The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.” Would BeOpportunityChallengesEconomyBuildingAdventureCitizensProsperityObjectivesDistractionPrivate SectorRobustRwandaCounterproductive Author:Paul Kagame
“I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.” IfsYearsLongTwoFactsJobsLawPoliticalMy OwnSpacePartyCreatingTwentiesResponsibleObjectivesRealmsOppositionTwo YearsDozenPolitical PartiesVigilantSuccessorsRwandaTwenty Two Author:Paul Kagame
“What often happens with these Islamist regimes, there are differing philosophies in terms of how fast to go in getting to where everybody wants to end up, which is Sharia. That is the ultimate objective for all of these places. But they have different strategies on the speed with which they’re going to get there, and the strategies involve foreign policy.” WantDifferentEndsPhilosophyHappensTermPolicyUltimateStrategySpeedObjectivesRegimesForeign PolicyIslamistsSharia Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.” NeedsFeltPathClearSecurityImportanceStressUnionsDebateObjectivesNational SecurityExitEuropean Union Author:Liam Fox
“Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.” IdeasConsciousnessShareEvolutionBehaviorInstitutionsTrackObjectivesPrimariesManipulationHerdsFreezeSuppressionBenignPropensityDisruptiveStandardization Author:Tom Robbins
“When I founded the party in 1966, I had just turned 24.And each year, no, not each year, each day I live I've gained new experiences. Now the criticism is not to say the party did not play a positive part in those times, but, in order to be objective, we did not accomplish the things we set out to accomplish.” YearsPlayOrderPartyCriticismAccomplishObjectivesEach DayNew Experiences Author:Huey Newton
“My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.” FirstsHomeCuttingBandGuitarTrackStudiosObjectivesSoloDemos Author:John Petrucci
“I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.” IfsWantFeelsI CanBookRealDoneStoriesSpiritualFormSunDogIdentityPrayingMoonEgoBirdBlameScriptureObjectivesIdentificationDisconnectedI Can Read Author:Alanis Morissette
“Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.” WorldDoeMatterStatesSpiritualYogaTraditionAbsolutesObjectivesRealizationIsolationSublimeWorldlyExalted Author:Rod Stryker
“What does "living your best life" mean to you? Does it mean accumulating wealth and fulfilling all your material wants? Or, does it mean turning away from the material world in order to fully realize the gift of spirit? We often tend to think of these objectives as being mutually exclusive: material fulfillment or spiritual fulfillment, not both together.” ThinkingWorldWantMeanDoeTogetherSpiritualSpiritOrderRealizingWealthMaterialsObjectivesFulfillmentFulfillingExclusiveMaterial WorldLife MeansAccumulating Wealth Author:Rod Stryker
“There's no question to my mind and I think no question to any objective observer's mind that the DNC was supporting Hillary Clinton and was at opposition to our campaign. So I'm not quite shocked by this. And that is why many, many months ago I made it clear that I thought Debbie Wasserman Schultz should resign, should step down.” ThinkingShouldMindMadeStepsClearMonthsClintonCampaignsObjectivesMade ItOppositionShockedObservers Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think it's always been an arrangement that had political objectives and goals, which is fine. Get married for whatever reason you want, as far as I'm concerned.” ThinkingWantReasonPoliticalGoalFineMarriedConcernedObjectivesArrangements Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We're approaching being able to do a billion billion calculations per second, and that's the - that's the objective of our national labs. We're still not there. But with hundreds of millions of calculations per second.” StillsAbleMillionsBillionsObjectivesCalculationsLabs Author:Joe Biden
“The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.” WayWritingArtGrowsPlansMastersDependsTruth IsObjectivesCodeInterpretationWorks Of ArtDocumentsPreciseHarmoniousLyrical Author:Daniel Libeskind
“Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great story than through the news outlets [where] everything is sensationalized. Not only are you getting information that sort of defies stereotypes, but you're also getting a wonderful story with hopefully good performances.” NeedsSometimesStoriesWonderfulInformationEasierMessagesNewsPerformancesEntertainmentObjectivesHopefullyStereotypeOutlets Author:Nia Long
“There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?” IfsLooksEyeNightTurnsLeaderMorningFireObjectivesFirmPairsCeoMondayFridayMonday MorningFriday NightPros And Cons Author:Andrea Jung
“The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.” FeelsActorsStuffResultsAttentionParticularStriveObjectivesBest ThingsUnexpectedHow You Feel Author:William H. Macy
“[ Lenny Kravitz] is really handsome, and I know I should be objective and think about his music, but up close, he is a really good-looking guy. He was hugging me while I was trying to go to a video, and I completely... You turn into a giddy girl, and it was just horrifying, because he really smelled good, and just the whole package... It's just too much.” ThinkingKnowsShouldTryingWholeGuyTurnsGirlToo MuchVideoObjectivesHugHandsomeLooking GoodPackagesGiddyGood Looking Guys Author:Jancee Dunn
“Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.” SticksObjectivesOrganisation Author:Mahathir Mohamad
“My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.” PersonsObjectivesDialogueBridges Author:Greg Laurie