#object

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. ↗

— Robert Shea

#because #focus #generally #goes #lend

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#being #changed #every #every time #false

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#familiar #hidden #lifts #makes #objects

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career. ↗

— Martin Short

#career #i #kind #luxury #objective

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. ↗

— Nate Silver

#call #commitment #having #journalism #lot

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#constantly #culture #energies #entirety #grow

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside. ↗

— Carly Simon

#any #cause #desire #get #inside

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#crave #craving #follow #get #itself