Quotes About Discernment

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

There are times when it's absolutely appropriate to march up to someone, stick out your hand and introduce yourself, and times when it's best to let your male cameraman or producer do the talking and hang back until you've felt out the situation.

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it's a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it's a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

without the pot affecting his judgment.

A kid just couldn't see the difference. It was like being color-blind or something, or preferring Frazetta to all those blobby old paintings of haystacks and French people in rowboats.

They didn't have to know what was coming, but they were always ready. They knew when to take the shot, and when to pass to someone else. When to talk, and when to stay silent. When to speed up, and when to slow down. When to respond to criticism, and when to laugh it off.

Keep your ears open. You know what the first word of the holy rule of Saint Benedict is? Listen.

If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.