Objective View Quotes

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

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

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.

I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.