Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

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

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

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.

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

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

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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.

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

A liberal is someone who is so open-minded that he won’t even take his own side in an argument.

Photographers tend to have the non-judgmental gene

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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

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.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

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

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

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.