Quotes About Discernment

I didn't take all the films that were offered, just those with dignity.

I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

When you're starting out in this business, it's very easy to want to say yes to everything that's offered to you.

I am not getting many offers in Mollywood, which is not the case in other film industries. And of the roles that are offered to me, I choose only the best.

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

I had got a couple of offers for appearances in films, but I didn't want to be a part of any film just for the sake of it.

You need to see what kind of offers come your way. Just because it is Bollywood, doesn't mean that you have to take it.

I've had offers for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, but I do not want to take just any musical. I want the musical that's right for me when I'm right for it.

For me in readings, I really have to be diplomatic and use discernment in what comes through because there is a lot that comes through and it oftentimes is very personal.

I won't sign a film thinking, 'Oh my God! I don't have a film so I've got to sign one real quickly.'

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

We must fight for liberal ideas like openness, but also about having a media that we believe in and that can sort between real news and facts and not-so-factual things.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.