With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
I don’t like to talk much, even when people speak bad about me. Inside me, I say, ‘Why do they have to think of me that way?’ But I know how I am. My objective is not that people follow me, but I’m happy that they do.
I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else.
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective – to find out what is authentically this moment.
Scoring a goal is very important for us, but the objective is to win the match.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Pride or ego is not important to me. What is more important is common sense, the welfare of the company, and the objective reality that we need to be cautious during difficult times. One should not make decisions based on emotions or ego.
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
I believe in choosing your words very carefully. It’s funny: I’ll get comments like, ‘Oh I love you. You don’t care; you have no filter.’ On the contrary, I absolutely have a filter, because I understand decorum, and my objective is not to upset people.
Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don’t achieve the interviewer’s objective – to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That’s the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I’d like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.
Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.
I’m very objective driven, so for me it’s very important to know who I’m fighting, when I’m fighting, and roughly the direction I’m working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.
Bodybuilding is not my main objective in life. It’s just something I do on the side.
The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.
If I’m hip, we’ve got a problem in this country. I really shouldn’t be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I’m sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There’s a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective.
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we’re desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
I don’t think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That’s why people write novels.
Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
I think – whether it’s music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want – there’s nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.
You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality.
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
Whenever success does come, I enjoy it for a moment but then put it to the side and focus on the main objective.
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
My central objective is, turn Afghanistan’s location into a greater asset. Central Asia is becoming Afghanistan’s major trading partner. The vision of connectivity is really important.
I am always fully in tune with the interviewer, who is usually trying to make me look silly. My objective is quite the opposite during an interview: I never use my wit or my intellect to make the interviewer look silly.
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reused on the second stage of New Glenn.
The Premier League is guided by this dynamic: ball lost – ball recovered – ball lost again. That makes matches unpredictable, teams must be objective and behave like that because that’s what excites fans.
The great thing about ‘Fargo’ is that it’s a more objective style of filmmaking: the camera moves in very classical ways, and the most interesting things normally are the characters.
My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
There’s a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn’t have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
My objective is always to play for the national team. For me, it’s the best feeling in the world to represent my country.
We haven’t yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.
Dad often told me, ‘My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.’ That was my dad’s objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.
I always said that VAR is a very important tool on objective and important decisions.
Part of being really objective about your trade, your music, or your art is recognizing that you might not know everything about it.
The objective is to do things well in London.
If the president were standing here with me today, he would say he works for the American people. I work for him, so I also work for the American people, but his objective and his commitment is to bring transparency and truth back to government, to share the truth, even when it’s hard to hear.
In practice, the U.K.’s most consistent strategic objective in relation to Iraq was to reduce the level of its deployed forces.
I don’t start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that’s taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.
Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.
Our objective is to win – always to win.
It doesn’t matter if I’m a rival of Anderson Silva’s or not; I’m also very objective. And I’m not going to take something from a guy that he earned. Anderson Silva earned the right to be called the greatest of all time. And those are just the facts.
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.
The structure of life I have described in buildings – the structure which I believe to be objective – is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
My mom, she thought I was the best. My sisters, maybe, but maybe that’s not objective or anything. But if you believe in yourself, your family believes in you, you put in the work, do it right, you only need one other person to believe in you. That doesn’t seem like a lot, but sometimes it is.
