Quotes About Judgment

If some busybody were to cross-examine me on the chapters already written, he could probably shed much more light on them, and if it were a hostile critic's cross-examination, he might even flatter himself for having shown up [make the world laugh by revealing] the hollowness of many of my pretensions.

the meaning of Adam's work sat on its surface, that he had no opinion of his subjects, good or bad: "Cullen's abjectness is not luxury at ease; his emptiness is not profundity; when he scribbles, his poor syntax is not a form of epigram. His crudeness is what it is – unabashed … He's a bottom-feeder, none too pernickety about taste. Every pond needs one, especially the cesspools of popular culture.

Adam almost never painted from life. His pictures were transcriptions. The text was harvested from popular culture, lifted from late-night television: phrases repeated aloud, over and over, until they had either shed or gained meaning. There was no judgement and little empathy.

Many watch paintings with their ears, ever since they judge art by the sound of the money. ( "When is art? " )

Perception is interpretation.

Ready-to-wear thinking means absence of critical awareness and lack of ground-breaking judgments. ("Prêt-à-penser")

Actions may be judged according to time and place, and their values may change; but style, language (apart from content) are crystallized at the moment.

Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to the needs of the Clan, and was never swayed by self-interest or pride. He would have made a fine leader.

You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong

You'll know if she's doing them right," the medicine cat called over her shoulder, "because she'll complain!

With this life I give you compassion," Pinestar murmured. "Judge as much with your heart as with your mind.

Do you think I'm never wrong? You must trust your own judgement. Believe me, Leafpaw, one day you will make a wonderful medicine cat--perhaps even as good as Spottedleaf.

A little pain can be useful, as it will help me judge how well she is healing. - Spottedleaf

Now Darkstripe, is neither young nor pretty.

That's the weirdest name I've ever heard! Daisy thought. It's hardly a name at all. It's like if my name were She-cat-She-cat!

abzuschätzen. Sie

Une grosse vieille dame à côté de moi se retenait à la courroie et sa robe sans manches laissait voir un incroyable nid d'oiseau sous son bras. C'est la chose la plus nauséabonde que j'aie jamais vue. J'espère que Tim ne l'a pas vue, il en serait devenu pédéraste.

I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

St. Peter:  ââ'¬Å"Who is knocking at my gate?" Voice: "It is I." St. Peter: "Go away, we don't need any more school teachers here!

She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.

The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes