Detached Analysis Quotes

It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

I don't like comparing projects. I find it too difficult because I can't objectively look at a piece when I'm so subjectively involved it.

I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.

I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done by directing one's attention away from the distracting details of the difficulty. From a detached perspective, we may examine the situation in a new or different light and, after exploring information and options, choose an appropriate course of action.

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

An outsider can see some things much better.

What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.