Quotes About Discernment

I hate the fact that people can judge based on something that isn't fully given to them. Like, this isn't the full product.

I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

There are all different types of people out there who are going to say all kinds of things, online and in real life. The important thing is to know which ones to listen to.

Films do have a very big impact on the youth, but the youth do have the quality to differentiate what is right and what is wrong!

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

I have an eye for detail.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants. And we're failing to distinguish between production and consumption.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

I never think of myself as a big star. Getting good scripts is all I think about. I don't have a godfather or anyone to take care of me. To move forward, I have to be very careful in choosing the right scripts, the right director, and the right technicians.

I felt I have gifted my wicket. So more than technique, I need to work on my shot selection, I need to decide which ball to be hit, I was going for every shot.

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.