Words matter. These are the best Dispassionate Quotes from famous people such as David Rakoff, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Steve Blank, Ayelet Waldman, John Fahey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.
In a perfect world, probably we’d never yell, we’d just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.
But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can’t explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don’t know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.
I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn’t support that.
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.
We take dispassionate view of our investments. Does it mean that we are looking out to monetise the investment? That is not correct. But if we get an offer that we cannot refuse, as I say, then it is not that we are not, that we will still hold on to the investment.
You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.
Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.
The notion that scientists are dispassionate – first of all, that’s wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
