It's a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only defin...ition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was "mine."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as ...an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of... the ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a father I had some trouble finding the words to separate the person from the deed. Usually, when one of my sons broke the rule...s or a window, I was too angry to speak calmly and objectively. My own solution was to express my feelings, but in an exaggerated, humorous way: "You do that again and you will be grounded so long they will call you Rip Van Winkle II," or "If I hear that word again, I'm going to braid your tongue."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in Lon...don--he arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswell--turned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever thinks a lot--which is to say, "objectively"Mreadily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts that they have brou...ght about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, the ...film objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of d...amage done by tea and sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believe...s itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before ... why do we think we can succeed now?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »