Zitat des Tages über Leidenschaftslos / Dispassionate:
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.
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.
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.
You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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.
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.
In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.