Subjective Quotes

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.