Quotes About Judgment

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.

I don't ever judge somebody by what comes out of their mouth 'cause I don't know what they're thinking. Sometimes people might just say things just to see how you react about it. People might say things to you just to try to throw you off your game. Doesn't necessarily mean they're a racist.

Seeing how people react to a situation, you can tell a lot.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

People in business tend to have an instinctive reaction to people.

I have a couple moves I like to get to on the iso, and then after that it's just read and reaction.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.

We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn't look pretty, especially in today's politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.