- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dispassionate Quotes
Lines on keeping a clear head instead of a reactive one.
Being dispassionate isn't the same as not caring, and these quotes make that distinction clear across business, art, and family life. For more on how people reason through disagreement, see our Argument quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
- Notion
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- Nov 07, 2020