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Quotes About Judgment

All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
~ Erica Jong
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
~ Erica Jong
I went for years not finishing anything because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.
~ Erica Jong
Si je m'intéresse à ce que pensent les gens cons, je n'aurai plus de temps à ce que pensent les gens intelligents.
~ Eric-Emanuelle Schmitt
Poate c? tânjesc dup? un miracol… Care anume? S? încetez s? m? v?d acÈ›ionând. S? nu mai fiu actriÅ£a, nici spectatoarea propriei persoane. S? încetez s? m? mai judec, s? m? critic, s?-mi percep impostura. ?i, în cele din urm?, precum un cub de zahar în ap?, s? m? cufund în realitate si s? m? dizolv în ea.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Poate c? tânjesc dup? un miracol… Care anume? S? încetez s? m? v?d acÈ›ionând. S? nu mai fiu actiÅ£a, nici spectatoarea propriei persoane. S? încetez s? m? mai judec, s? m? critic, s?-mi percep impostura. ?i, în cele din urm?, precum un cub de zahar în ap?, s? m? cufund în realitate si s? m? dizolv în ea.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Tu mourras par où tu as péché.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Il saggio trova in sé la causa dei propri errori, il pazzo ne accusa gli altri».
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Ovviamente non si ha il diritto di dar da mangiare a Pop Corn, visto che si trova qui per dimagrire. Novantotto chili a nove anni, un metro e dieci di altezza per un metro e dieci di larghezza! Il solo indumento in cui entri completamente è una tuta sportiva americana, le cui righe sembrano avere il mal di mare.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?
~ Erich Fromm
Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.
~ Erich Fromm
We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.
~ Amanda Filipacchi
Might never know, because she was one of those people who would always be defined by the way others perceived her.
~ Amanda Stevens
I've often thought madness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
~ Amanda Stevens
Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?
~ Amber Tamblyn
"Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The covers of this book are too far apart.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
Old age is the verdict of life.
~ Amelia Barr
Religious folk could be so deliciously predictable. He could set his watch by their hypocrisy.
~ Ami McKay