Quotes About Judgment

Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

It's ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one's judgement.

Life is short, even for those who live a long time, and we must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

Don't confuse mercy for forgiveness.

When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

There's a time and purpose for being lost. If you don't judge the being lost you get through it sooner.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'