Chuck Close Quotes

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

Don't denounce, just state the facts.

Photographers tend to have the non-judgmental gene

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.

I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.