Objective Quotes

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.