#objective

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results. ↗

— Major Taylor

#appears #center #concentrate #enough #failure

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#chance #cloth #coat #conditions #contained

Objective Reality and Truth requires neither ones consent nor dissent. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#objective-law #reality #truth #r-alan-woods

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#been #being #game #get #good

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#former #history #latter #majority #objectives

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#going #known #minister #nothing #objective

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

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What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#companionship #course #happy #happy life #i