Quotes About Discernment

Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

When you're younger, you might make some shots you're not normally capable of, because you're more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.

I'm not going to offer and take a guy at North Carolina that I don't meet. And if I don't like him, I'm not taking him.

I'm not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

I am not interested in churning out a certain number of films every year. For me, it's about the quality of work. I think it's about following your instincts and doing a film for the right reason.

I'm not interested in doing every role that is coming my way.

I hope it never gets to that point that I'm gonna have people around me that are using me. I'm very good with noticing that.

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

I am very observant of people's character.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

I look like I'm not listening, but I'm actually listening. I like listening to everything, observing everybody, just taking everything in, and then, in my mind, figuring out what's good for me and what's bad for me.

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

A wise man's words are rarely questioned," he counselled gently. "Therefore you must be very careful whom you call wise.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them. -Tock

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.