Mehcad Brooks Quotes

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

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

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

To be objective you don't have to be an adversary. You don't have to be a bulldog tearing down everything. To make the system of checks and balances and separation of powers work, you don't have to be on their ass all the time.

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

I don't take anything personally.

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

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.

I don't take anything personal.

As a pundit, it's important to tell the viewer something they might not know, be unbiased and not sit on the fence.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.