Objective Thinking Quotes

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

There's nothing wrong with changing your position to fit the facts; there's everything wrong with changing the facts to fit your position.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense where it feels like the moral imperative is pulling you one direction or another.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think, naturally, my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry, I became very objective and analytical of myself early on, and I find myself doing that in everything.

A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.

I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.