Quotes About Judgment

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

Being in the public eye, especially, can be hard sometimes. It's kind of like anything you do is... if you make any mistake... It can definitely be overwhelming sometimes.

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

Everyone in public life should judge ideas on the quality of their contents, not the identity of their proponents. Doing so is the only truly fair way of doing things.

I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.

Instead of channeling Trump, and attacking the courts in ways that are as bad as or worse than the president's, public officials who ought to know better should behave better.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position.

At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

The industry is a difficult place to be in. It is not at all rosy. There are judgements being made. I don't like bad publicity, but that is part and parcel of it. However, I am grateful for whatever I have got from the industry.

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

It's hard to expose your personal life publicly, and everyone has an opinion.

We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a national stage.

Publish and be dammed.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico with the men in her life. Her brothers abused her. It's very easy to be judgmental, but more often than not, there are mitigating circumstances, and children are not usually aware of those.

I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.