Quotes About Discernment

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.

A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

Your eye becomes more mature. What you don't see the first time, you keep looking, and eventually you'll see it. And when you are confident with what your eye sees, you know you've got to have it.

I'm a great believer in everything at the right time. Go on a crazy spree if it's the right time to do it but choose your moment carefully and beware of impulse buying.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.

The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a different time slot or if it's going to be something that kids won't be able to get their hands on

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.