Quotes About Discernment

People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.

My research collaborator Don Moore points out that police officers spend a lot of time figuring out who is telling the truth and who is lying, but research has found they aren't nearly as good at it as they think they are and they tend not to get better with experience. That's because experience isn't enough. It must be accompanied by clear feedback.

A defining feature of intuitive judgment is its insensitivity to the quality of the evidence on which the judgment is based.

What make the difference is correctly identifying and responding to subtler information so you zero in on the eventual outcome faster than others.

La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion

If you don't get it, you don't get it." ... "If you don't get it, you may yet.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.

Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

You are either visual or you're not.

I think of colour sense as the visual equivalent of perfect pitch. Some people can just reach into a pile of swatches and say that looks nice with that.

My pay packet is reasonable. But I prefer doing films where I have a meaty role. The set-up of the film and the filmmaker also matter to me. For me those are vital issues that help me decide on a film. You never sign a film only for money.

If you are blessed with good vocals then it doesn't mean you start picking up anyone's song and start singing it. You should sing less but with quality.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

I would say that my ability doesn't' have an off switch but instead is more of a volume dial. When going about everyday life I try and switch that noise to becoming background noise, but have taught myself when to turn the volume up, such as in readings.

I know the volume of my work is less and I would have wanted to do more films. But I can't do just any role. That's the reason why I have done less crappy films.

I'm not an actress who's a fan of gratuity, so I don't seek projects that have nudity for nudity's sake. I don't know any actors who do, unless they're in 'Spartacus.'

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

I'm being more selective about what I do, but really, it's just, if I love it, I'ma do it. It's that simple.

I don't work that much because I am selective.