Henry Samueli Quotes

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

Some referees have to think about treating every player the same, even if it's Ronaldinho or another player from a Premiership club. It doesn't matter how good you are: you have to be treated the same.

I'd work with anyone that the script requires me to. I'd never let my personal biases rule my judgement.

I don't judge anybody until I meet them.

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

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

Openness is the natural enemy of arbitrariness.

A fair field and no favor!

You learn not to get attached to one side .... You take both sides.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

I wish at all events to retain at all times a judicial habit of not condemning a thing utterly until I have heard what is to be said for it.

I have come to learn that preliminary judgments are not judgments.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

Fairness is really important to me.

I take every possible side.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.