Quotes About Discernment

No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

We ask to know the will of God without guessing that his will is written into our very beings.'26

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott

Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.

the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.

If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch Wagner because I think a lot of people do it a hell of a lot better than I could. I do the operas I think I can do, know something about.

I could have signed 10 films after 'Jai Ho,' but those films would have done nothing for me. I wanted to wait for the right project.

Sometimes we wait for thunderclaps, drumrolls, and clarion calls to alert us to what's important when, actually, it's most often the subtle and persistent signals around us that make the most difference.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it.

If you want to walk me, walk me. But if I see something close to home plate, I want to swing.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

It's lovely I have 'Big Brother' and 'The Voice,' so that's two regular jobs I love. But even before then, when I wasn't working and I couldn't find work, if something was offered to me and it didn't feel right, I wouldn't take it.

Bob Baffert is not stupid.

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.