Quotes About Discernment

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.

I pick and choose when I like to have my moments.

I definitely pick and choose what I put out and what I want people to know.

When you start your career, you act in all kinds of movies. You don't pick and choose. But later on, you may feel that there were some films where you should have given a second thought before saying yes.

The older I've gotten and the more I've played, I realize there is a time for emotion, but you have to pick and choose those times.

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

I'm good at picking friends.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

The public always picks quality.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

When it comes to creation, I am open. However, I am extremely picky when it comes to who I create with.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

I've been really picky about the sort of characters that I want to represent.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

I always feel like I just wanna go, and that's something that I'm learning every day - understanding to think more instead of just going because I see an advantage or I see that 'oh, I can make this move, I can make this shot.'

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.

Over the time that I followed Warren Buffett, one CFO told me, it's very important to pay attention not only to what Warren Buffett says and what he actually does - often there are subtle differences between the two.