Quotes About Judgment

Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.'

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

All standards are double standards.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.

I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

I always have separated myself from my critiques of collections. My judgment is not about whether I would wear it - but how the collection stands in the lexicon of an established designer. As I am a maximalist, not a minimalist, I don't wear Armani or Celine - but I so appreciate what they have achieved.

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.