Quotes About Judgment

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

I don't want to give you the opportunity to find a box to put me in, figure it out later. When the records come out song by song, you'll hear it and get to determine how you want to classify me.

One of the biggest pieces of advice I'd give you is: Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. If you're in high school, there are definitely things being said about you. Don't let them determine who you are.

Why does the worth of an actress have to be determined by her co-stars?

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

When you say 'R&B,' people's minds automatically go in a place. How about I just say, 'Here's a tape; you can check it out on iTunes. You tell me.'

I don't like to judge from tapes. The strategy starts in the ring.

I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should talk about. If you act a little differently you become a target. There is pressure to conform. This is very dangerous.

Isn't it wrong to target and brand an entire state in a poor light?

For whatever the reasons may be, a lot of teams try to target me as a defender from a standpoint of assuming I'm not very great at it.

It is the women who get targeted because the society will point fingers at them.

When will we regard human beings as human beings? Why do we discuss someone's appearance? And when we can't find faults in appearances, we start targeting their personalities. Why do we consider others beneath us?

I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.

Every club has its scapegoats, but some are easier targets than others.