Quotes About Judgment

The street teaches you how to determine which people to trust and which ones to stay away from.

Girls like me assumed we'd be judged and belittled, we expected girls to be sexualised and then condemned for their sexuality, punished for both silence and speaking out, told we should accept responsibility for our choices and then called crazy or stupid or slutty if we didn't live by the rules other people chose for us.

Girl-shaming as a sport and industry needs to be over.

The writer Anne Lamott says, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."28

We must judge ourselves by a higher standard than effectiveness, the standard called faithfulness.

Let reason alone decide

For this shall never be proved, that the things that are not are; and do thou restrain thy thought from this way of inquiry. Nor let habit force thee to cast a wandering eye upon this devious track, or to turn thither thy resounding ear or thy tongue; but do thou judge the subtle refutation of their discourse uttered by me.

Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all. Yet none the less shalt thou learn of these things also, since thou must judge approvedly of the things that seem to men as thou goest through all things in thy journey.

Grate power comes with grate responsibility. so use it wisely.

Lord. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:

His idea of female beauty was a woman so fat if you slapped her backside in the morning she'd still be jiggling when you got back home for dinner.

The difference between Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Enron's Kenneth Lay is far easier to recognize with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.

Consider the credibility of your source before you take his or her criticism seriously. And remember, there are always a few sharks cruising around, looking for raw meat. Don't feed them, or they're sure to come back" (p. 224).

Are the styles we embrace a matter of taste, or of values rejected?

Urgency is a tiebreaker only between two tasks of equal validity.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.

My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

I think it's the eyes. No one expects brilliance out of a man with eyelashes like that.

Just because something is dangerous does not make it evil. (Adam)

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

Some people, me, get a black eye and other people ask "who beat you up?" Other people, Spielman, get a black eye and other people say "where did they bury the other guy?