Quotes About Discernment

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I'm ready to wait for the best role rather than do all the projects coming my way and regret about it later.

You see everyone's true colors in a rehearsal.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

I have to get out of the habit of jumping into relationships with new friends before I really get to know them.

When you watch people when they're relaxed, that's when you learn the most about them. That's when you really learn about who they really are.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.

You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.

The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, very careful. You can't afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

Unfortunately, you cannot find honest people everywhere and thusly, really have to watch what you reveal to certain people before you have really gotten to know their character.

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.

People judge. Fast

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

Ben thought that was how you could tell the difference between most people. It wasn't I'm a dog person and I'm a cat person or I'm a Chiefs fan and I'm a Broncos guy. It was whether you cared about quarters. To him, four quarters was a dollar. A stack of quarters was lunch. The amount of quarters those little shits threw out the window that day could have bought him half a pair of jeans.

But on certain key issues, like Germany, he saw things clearly, as the prince did not.

let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.

My dad always uses this expression: If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

When the Christian's mind becomes dull, he can fall prey to the propaganda of a non-Christian scheme of things, led by people who have not neglected their thinking powers—and have simply outthought us.