Christiane Amanpour Quotes

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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

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

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

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

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

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.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

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

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

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.