Quotes About Judgment

None that speak of me know me, and when they do speak, they slander me; those who know me keep silent and in their silence do not defend me; thus, all speak ill of me until they meet me, but when they meet me they find rest, and they bring me salvation, for I never rest.

Por qué habría de querernos el que señalamos nosotros con tembloroso dedo?

Talking successfully about feelings requires you to be scrupulous about taking the judgments, attributions, and statements of blame out of what you are saying, and putting the statement of feeling in. It is crucial to look at the actual words you are using to see whether those words really convey what you want them to. For

I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

All three elements of blame are present: you caused this, I'm judging you negatively, and implicit in what I am saying is that one way or another you will be punished, especially if it happens again.

The goal shouldn't be to remove interpretation or judgment. It should be to make judgments thoughtfully, and once made, to have them be transparent and discussable.

Blame Is About Judging, and Looks Backward

The error we make in the realm of intentions is simple but profound : we assume we know the intentions of others when we don't. Worse still, when we are unsure about someone's intentions, we too often decide they are bad.

As you approach these chapters, have this question marinating in the back of your mind: Why is it that when we give feedback we so often feel right, yet when we receive feedback it so often feels wrong?

Our Conclusions Reflect Self-Interest

And it is the bullwhip of negative judgment—from ourselves or others—that produces much of our anxiety around feedback. Surprisingly, reassurance—"You can do this" and "I believe in you"—also falls into the category of additional judgments, but on the positive side.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

Jesus said it like this, "But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be" (Matt.

Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak

Birisi hakk?nda devaml? bir ÅŸeyler duyunca, o kiÅŸiyi biraz tan?d???n? zannediyorsun. KiÅŸinin itibar?n? gerçek benliÄŸiyle kar??t?rmak çok kolay. Onun hakk?nda hiçbir ÅŸey bildiÄŸini anlamak için onunla ÅŸahsen tan??man gerekiyor.

The Other Him gave a creepy look that bordered on pity. Oh, you poor baby. Which was surreel. Was that what Hradie looked like when he was trying to look sympathetic? No wonder everybody seemed to want to punch him in the face.

True humility is the willingness to allow others to help judge our leanings, leadings and revelations.

The right to challenge a man's judgment carries with it no automatic right to question his honor.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

the cult of Same is all the chic; by instruments, both span and spic, are justly measured Spic and Span:

But if you believe God's divine judgment and you countenance reincarnation, then it may be reasonably assumed that a certain bacterium living in the anus of a particularly ancient hatchetfish at the bottom of the ocean is the recycled and fully sentient soul of Adolf Hitler glimmering miserably through the cloacal muck in which he is periodically bathed and nourished.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.