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Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.

Laura Ahearn

The company used subjective and value-based criteria not related to job duties to determine who to hire.

Jack Lee

It's very subjective, ... Who's to say what is an appropriate level of investment without knowing that manager's risk and time horizon?

Chris Doyle

Expectations of decreased pain powerfully reduced both the subjective experience of pain and activation of pain-related brain regions.

Robert Coghill

Since stress is subjective, change the way that you perceive things. A long commute, for example, can become an opportunity to listen to tapes of books that you'll never find time to read.

Joanne Herman

As we increased the riskiness of a target, the neurons' activity would go up in the same way the monkey's frequency of choosing that target would go up. It was amazing the degree to which the activity of these neurons paralleled the behavior of the monkeys. They looked like they were signaling, in fact, the monkeys' subjective valuation of that target.

Michael Platt

All I would say is the talks are constructive and progress has been made. But I'm not going to speculate on how close an agreement is. In my experience in talks like these, close and near are awfully subjective terms.

Paul Krell

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair.

Laura Miller

Language is clumsy, understanding is subjective, religion is obstructive. We must rise above these obstacles to achieve complete being.

Kate Miller

I have no idea. That's a subjective sort of situation. . . . I just know we started out poorly and we got better as the game went along.

Gregg Popovich

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

Thomas Troward

This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes?

Howard Simon

For subjective indicators of pain, obese people indicated similar levels of pain to non-obese people. But when we looked at objective indicators, we found that the obese group had a lower threshold for pain.

Charles Emery

You have a different kind of experience -- a different quality of experience -- when you see red, when you see green, when you hear middle C, when you taste chocolate. Whenever you're conscious, whenever you have a subjective experience, it feels like something.

David Chalmers

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.

Diane Sawyer

I was pleased that the Supreme Court did not rule our schools were inadequately funded. Adequacy is a highly subjective assessment. The best way to judge an adequate education is to let the parents decide--give them the right to choose their child's school.

Don Mcleroy

Everyone's memory is subjective. If in three weeks we were both interviewed about what went on here tonight, we would both probably have very, very different stories.

James Frey

Our results demonstrate that chronic noise exposure is associated with a mildly to moderately increased risk of heart attack. The increase appears more closely associated with actual sound levels rather than with subjective annoyance. However, there were differences between men and women, and these need further investigation.

Stefan Willich

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

Investors care about product quality to the extent that it definitively correlates with financial performance. The reality is, however, that it's very hard to draw a direct correlation between product quality -- maybe because it's so subjective -- and financial performance in the newspaper industry.

Peter Appert

We find the subjective voice, the first-person voice, and that takes care of the problem of what people need to say and the form they need to say it in.

Paul Sullivan

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Dr. Linus Pauling

We could have easily walked away without placing. It's very subjective, but our food tasted phenomenal.

Paul Ferzacca

It's subjective on our part. We go through those responses and what we look for is people who are really passionate about their communities. ... It's not necessarily the number of people (who respond). It is what are the compelling reasons that make this community special.

Tonja Deegan

There are so many pianists that play so well. Once they're at that level, the judging is so subjective.

Michael Luxner

The court took a standard that was intelligible, easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic.

Laughlin Mcdonald

If the incentives were attractive, if the process were not so difficult and bureaucratic and not so subjective, the people would say let's go for it.

John Grandoff

It would be foolhardy to suggest that we have selected the most important people, because these judgments are often subjective.

Jon Gelberg

Bifurcation is subjective and will come down to actuarial judgment. Actuaries at different companies could easily come up with different opinions on how much risk is transferred by a contract.

Jeff Berg

It's a subjective idea what 'moderate growth' is.

Valerie Putchaven

It's pretty subjective, we're judged. There are many different things that are judged. From beginning to end, it's riddled with different things. It's very hard to achieve perfection. It's pretty involved. It's a lot harder than most people think.

Caitlin Shipe

We're certainly aware of the rankings. It's a tough region. We're in there with some very tough schools, and it's subjective.

Sandy Hoddinott

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Shek Borkowski

How do you know there?s no touching unless you?re one of the participants? It?s dark in there. You don?t know whether they?re half-an-inch away or not. With the 4-foot rule, it?s a lot less subjective. Our vice people can enforce it without buying a dance.

Mel Mcdonald

Rarely, when we observe nature in the science classroom do we allow ourselves the freedom to employ both subjective and objective analysis.

Carolyn Rost

I think one of the reasons I was initially interested was because it's a physical, non-subjective competition. I mentioned it to a few friends and they said, 'Melinda, you're not going to make it, you're not going to be able to do that,' and it made me mad. I took it as a challenge.

Melinda Hyder

I think that when you have a system that is based on such a subjective criteria, and it remains subjective no matter what the training is about, that you will inevitably have abuse and racial profiling.

Jay Stanley

Taste is subjective and may very well change with time. The ordinance could certainly be changed or deleted by a future city council. If you like it, vote. If you don't like it, vote.

Mark Mckenna

It's the most subjective thing in the world. In the NFL they have a much more comprehensive process, and they still make colossal mistakes. We have much more limited [scouting opportunities], with much younger individuals.

Chuck Heater

I don't think you would dispute that if I asked you to describe what you were wearing it would be a different description from mine. So it strikes me as not a big deal that memoir is subjective. It's that it has to be honest in its retelling of facts or tell you that it's not.

Peter Osnos

It's really subjective. For the foreseeable future, we're going to have multiple formats.

Kevin Hause

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

J. B. S. Haldane

Perspective is relative. How we view life all according to our own subjective personalities and realities. There are a lot of other things that can go on to disturb your perspective of what's real to you.

Tracy Salter

It becomes, therefore, the most important of all considerations with what character we invest in the Universal Mind; for since our relation to it is purely subjective it will infallibly bear to us exactly that character which we impress upon it; in other words it will be to us exactly what we believe it to be.

Thomas Troward

What homeowners often don't know or realize is that this process is a subjective one. Essentially, your assessment is one person's opinion about the value of your house.

Pete Sepp

The current process leaves shareholders in the dark. It leaves the impression that executive pay practices are entirely subjective.

Brandon Rees

[And with no structured process, criteria for who gets what merit job is subjective at best.] If we're looking for objectivity, ... a standardized process would be something worthwhile to review.

Bob Wilson

It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.

Art Larson

Yes, that is a subjective phrase, but I believe every officer that signs it understands its scope. But that's not to mean that the Police Department becomes Big Brother. If your private life adversely or negatively impacts this profession, you're probably committing an ethical transgression.

Wayne Shelor

It's completely subjective. You just told officers you can interrogate anyone you want. It's really a question of will you have limits on police power or not.

Scott Hansen

Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how the body responds to pain stimuli.

Charles Emery

The old system was based on subjective factors and was fundamentally flawed.

Susan Gard

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Alain Badiou

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Trent Lott

You want the card to do the speaking for you when you're not around. When someone has a Rolodex of cards and they're deciding who to call, it's a subjective thing. So you want to make sure your card works the way you want it to.

Gary Matt

We believe that in reaching its decision, the ASA made subjective inferences which are not related to the specific claims made in our advertisements.

Richard Lowe

There have been some questions about whether they have been reserving enough. But one could argue they are reserving too much. It's fairly subjective.

David Rose

For those who didn't get in, keep trying, because it is subjective.

Emily Ritchey