Quotes About Discernment

I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or a slow burn, choosing projects carefully, and building an artistic practice over time that feels specific to who they are as artists.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

Rather than make 20 things and throw them at the wall and hope you get 6 that maybe feel like keepers, why not focus?

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

I tend to find in my musical world people end up appearing, and I'm pretty good at being able to discern right away whether or not they are going to be appropriate based on their personality.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.

Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

Philosophy is the art of making distinctions.