Quotes About Discernment

I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot.

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can't spot that CM Punk is magic from the moment he walks in the door, then you're reading a playbook from an antiquated writer.

Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don't have to have the ear for what's tight and what's not, which is something a lot of people don't have.

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice--just policy

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice - just policy. pg. 504

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Alors une faculté pitoyable se développa dans leur esprit, celle de voir la bêtise et de ne plus la tolérer.

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

Steve Jobs taught me that little details separate the mediocre from the excellent.

It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.

Pode ser um pecado pensar mal dos outros, mas raramente sera um engano

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

It is more important to know what to hate than it is to know what to love.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Justice, but not mercy, is a matter of judgment

I have a good eye, said Benjamin. Most of the time I can look at a person and see their whole life. Small things give them away. That farmer, for instance. I could tell by the way he tied his shoes that he'd never traveled more than twenty miles from his home, and it was unlikely that he'd follow us for long. And that Father John of yours. I knew he had something hidden in that sleeve. And I knew he'd use it on you. The only thing I didn't know was if you deserved it.