Quotes About Judgment

If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.