Quotes About Discernment

I had known her long enough, though, to realize that one of Jenny's greatest gifts was her ability to see something with utter clarity—and then to look straight through it, as though it wasn't there.

Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness.

The most important thing I've learned about women, Sassenach, is which one to choose.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

I can be such a Little Lord Fauntleroy about what I even audition for.

I'm not dumb enough to call up a bad player.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

There's a difference between having an edge and being stupid.

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a drink with them?

I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

The problem is, you're looking for faults from the first moment you meet a man." "I hate to disillusion you, but when they're as obvious as the San Andreas, they're not that hard to spot.

You have to be careful which ones you allow yourself to make. Some, you can adjust to. Others are game changers.

Let everyone beware lest he presume to take it upon himself to criticize and condemn other men's faults without his having been truly touched within by the Holy Spirit in his work. Otherwise he may very easily err in his judgments. Beware therefore. Judge yourself as seems right to you between yourself and your God, and let other men alone.

Fish in the right waters. Know what you're looking for. Throw back the ones that aren't worth keeping. It's a big ocean out there.

May those who love us love us, and those who do not love us, may God turn their hearts, and if He cannot turn their hearts may He turn their ankles that we may know them by their limping.

Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.