Quotes About Discernment

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

The one thing I cannot support in a woman is stupidity.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.

I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.

Gurdjieff put considerable emphasis on what he called the "instinctive sensing of reality," weak in many of us but not irretrievably so.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity.

Fidelity to the whole of revealed truth is what distinguished good theology from its counterfeits.

For the man was canny, he was intuitive, he anticipated everything. He continually looked over his shoulders, he looked into the background with mirrors, he locked his sleeping room at night, he could pick out a whisper in the wind, he could register the slightest added value a man put into his words, he could probably read the faltering and perfidy in Bob's face.

When people read the Bible, they are trying to discern how they are to live.

We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

Great temptations can come from those who love us and seek to protect us. Be cautious of advice from a friend who says, "Surely God doesn't want you to face this." Often our most difficult temptations come from those who are only trying to protect us from discomfort.

See what is invisible and you will see what to write

People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.

Takes one motherfucker to know another.