Quotes About Discernment

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

A writer's work is to witness things.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.

I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.

If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.