Quotes About Judgment

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

If Simon Cowell asked me, of course I would love to do 'X Factor.'

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

I'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

At first, I found the feedback quite harsh; having people judge you and say you're horrible is difficult. I was being called the Simon Cowell of the cookery world and the female Gordon Ramsay. I mean, what? From all I knew, that was simply part of being a chef; it was the way we talked in the kitchen.

I was into Simon & Garfunkel before my friends got into punk and laughed at me for liking Paul Simon.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.

A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.

Often people have an instant intuition that an action is immoral, and then struggle, often unsuccessfully, to come up with reasons why it is immoral.169

The difference between explaining behavior and excusing it is captured in the saying To understand is not to forgive.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If we show our poem to our friend and our friend says, "It's wonderful, I love it," that's not real-world feedback, that's our friend being nice to us. Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

Colonel L., in whose eyes I was a first-rate Riot Acter or, worse, an intellectual—in his phrase, "someone who reads books"—the most damning appraisal that could be made of a junior lieutenant.

The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If we show our poem to our friend and our friend says, It's wonderful, I love it, that's not real-world feedback, that's our friend being nice to us. Nothing is as empowering as real- world validation, even if it's for failure.

The ordeal of command consists in this: that one makes decisions of fatal consequence based on ludicrously inadequate intelligence.

I don't know what you're writing, Steve. I don't want to know. I'll never read it. I'll never judge it. All I ask of it, and of you, is that it come from that sacred space inside you and that it stay true, as you write it, to the ideals of that hallowed precinct.

You, Lord, are the only One who knows the whole story, so we don't have the right to judge.

Judgment has been a vessel for exploring alienation, rejection, hatred, bigotry, and elitism.

Judgment has done exactly what we asked it to do. It is important to see its validity in the world in order to release it.