Quotes About Opinions

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

If you want to go public with your opinions, then someone is going to judge you a moron. And there is always a risk that you may be.

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair--say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"--and see how seriously people take you.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

Everyone's belief is everyone else's concern.24 Those who talk of "tolerating all opinions" are very provincial bigots who are only familiar with one opinion.

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another's differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one's standards or one's opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

God forbid, but if this nation ultimately fails, I believe it will be because opinions, propaganda, and superstitions replaced facts as the basis for our governance. By doing so, we will have undercut a key strength of the United States over the course of its history, one that receives too little attention: science.

God forbid, but if this nation ultimately fails, I believe it will be because opinions, propaganda, and superstitions replaced facts as the basis for our governance.

An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.

My favourite bit of advice comes from Dr. Daniel Amen's 18, 40, 60 Rule: "At 18 you worry about what everyone thinks of you. At 40 you don't care. At 60 you realise no one was thinking about you anyway!

You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.

It's not events, but our opinions about them, which cause us suffering." Ellis

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.

For other brain types who may be hesitant to speak up because they fear they may offend others or their ideas won't be well-received, practice speaking up and sharing your opinions. You may be surprised to find that others respond more positively to you when you say what's on your mind.

A simple rule can help: before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position. This procedure makes good use of the value of the diversity of knowledge and opinion in the group. The standard practice of open discussion gives too much weight to the opinions of those who speak early and assertively, causing others to line up behind them.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

When I as a fan and a viewer tune into ESPN, I don't want politics and I don't want to look at a person and have to think politics.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.