Richard Norton Smith Quotes

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

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

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

I can't play a character that I am judging.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

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

If you're writing an impartial proper biography, you speak to everyone around them who really know them, you do not need, unless you're a minister of propaganda, to have input from the person.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

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

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.