Quotes About Judgment

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

who says they're all criminals? -he parried- some might actually be innocent. others may need someone to explain them. there are reasons why we become the way we are, which often aren't apparent on the surface of our lives

religion also teaches kindness, personal responsibility, and the grace not to judge people by the worst moments in their lives.

Hell, with money you can even get away with being liberal. But if you're poor and liberal, people just think you're peculiar. Oh, they'll never be sure whether you're a liberal because you're poor or poor because you're a liberal, but they're damn sure it's one or the other.

The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.

In his nearly twenty-five years as Chief Justice, Roger Bannon never once voted to overturn a death sentence. But what truly distinguished him was a driving lack of curiosity as to whether any of these defendants were, in fact, innocent.

Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!

On the Overture of the Rossini opera "Il SIgnor Bruschino" - The sound of the second violins striking the backs of their bows against the metal candle holders shortly after the start of the overture was judged 'incomprehensible' by the Giornale. Rossini feared as much. 'Dio ti salvi l'anima' (God save your soul), he wrote on the manuscript at the end of the overture).

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.

Ostin always said that when it came to snakes the rule of thumb is "the more pretty, the more dangerous." I think he said the same thing about girls.

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

It's because the very core of their identity is called into question. Whether they're guilty or not makes almost no difference. That's just the way we're wired.

Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.

When people look at a dangerous violent criminal at the beginning of his developmental process rather than at the very end of it, they will see, perhaps unexpectedly, that the dangerous violent criminal began as a relatively benign human being for whom they would probably have more sympathy than antipathy.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.