Quotes About Judgment

A few modern philosophers…assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism….With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

Your "intelligence mindset" comes into play when situations involve mental ability. Your "personality mindset" comes into play in situations that involve your personal qualities -- for example, how dependable, cooperative, caring, or socially skilled you are. The fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.

With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

Before we judge, let's remember that effort isn't quite everything and that all effort is not created equal.

tune in to the messages you're sending. Are they messages that say: You have permanent traits and I'm judging them? Or are they messages that say You're a developing person and I'm interested in your development?

Next time you're in a position to discipline, ask yourself, What is the message I'm sending here: I will judge and punish you? or I will help you think and learn?

Antes de juzgar, recordemos que el esfuerzo no lo es todo, y que hay esfuerzos que parten en desventaja.

It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.

Many subjects harshly devalue the victim as a consequence of acting against him. Such comments as, 'He was so stupid and stubborn he deserved to get shocked,' were common. Once having acted against the victim, these subjects found it necessary to view him as an unworthy individual, whose punishment was made inevitable by his own deficiencies of intellect and character.

A stereotype might bend or even shatter under the weight of disconfirming information, but the hallmark of prejudice is that it is impervious to reason, experience, and counterexample.

separates his behavior from his identity, and that ability is what ultimately allows people to live with behavior they now condemn.

Daisy had her own criteria for judging people. On the whole, she expected to like people she met, and on the whole, she did. It seemed to her a much pleasanter way to live than to go about looking for superficial defects such as the wrong class, or a brown face, thus eliminating a lot of delightful people from one's acquaintance.

Time was when my little feet were the only ones welcome in the establishment, from the chorus girls' dressing room to the owners' penthouse. However, the newcomer—who has no obvious attractions other than the dubious ability to scream like a harem of Siamese in heat at odd hours of the night—is the center of an epidemic of cooing that leaves myself cold.

Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us." "I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren." "Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path.

Sexism is judging people by their sex where sex doesn't matter.

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.

Louisa May Alcott is right. An extraordinary girl can't have an ordinary life. Don't judge yourself. Love yourself.

If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.

It's like they can smell the public school on me.

Most kids are assholes, just like most adults.

She cackles and her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.