Quotes About Making Judgments

#1. Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Lewis B. Smedes

#2. Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Anton Chekhov

#3. making judgments under the pressure of a crisis, about weighing the relative merits of various choices with potentially catastrophic outcomes.

Timothy F. Geithner

#4. If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Larry Brilliant

#5. Research has shown that consumers are making judgments about your clinical skills based on the appearance of your website.

Fred Joyal

#6. Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

Joan Didion

#7. I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

Ray Dalio

#8. What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

Hattie Morahan

#9. Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

John C. Maxwell

#10. I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

Jim McKay

#11. Most effectively, if we are made to feel accountable in our judgments, we will spend more time looking at angles and possibilities before making up our minds - and so will expend the correctional

Anonymous

#12. For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.

George S. Patton

#13. Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that - rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl - my girl - my girl that I'm proud of.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.

Alberto Gonzales

#15. Love," he whispered in Italian, "is a single soul inhabiting two bodies".

Elizabeth Hunter

#16. All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

Matt Haig

#17. Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid "judgments," you'll find that you have nothing to say.

Steven Pressfield

#18. Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

Lauren Oliver

#19. He has wet dreams and moans dirty things about chest hair."
"That was one time." Okay, more like six times.

T.J. Klune

#20. And see those metaphors 'up front' and 'out in the open' are part of a system we call atavistic purism. AP implies the existence of an ethically perfect state which not only doesn't exist and never existed but it's usually used to shore up the prejudices of whoever's making the judgments.

Jennifer Egan

#21. I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

Ellen Goodman

#22. Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Neel Burton

#23. There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

Malcolm Gladwell

#24. If we throw judgments out, that is exactly what will return to us. What we give is exactly what we will receive. It doesn't matter if we throw out good or bad. It all comes back. It is a spiritual law.

Sandra M. Michelle

#25. On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

Ray Davies

#26. People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.

David Ogilvy

#27. Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Dee Hock

#28. The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.

C. G. Jung

#29. Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Dennis Prager

#30. High EQ decision makers can leverage multifaceted thought processes in making sound judgments and improving the overall decision-making maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#31. I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

Rodney Dangerfield

#32. She glanced over at Adrian. "But then, you must've overcome a few of your hang-ups about the supernatural if you rode in the same as Jaclyn's pool boy."
"These hands don't do manual labor," Adrian told her.
"Be quiet, boy," she snapped. "Before you become less endearing.

Richelle Mead

#33. They let the enemy build mosques in our midst, let them rob our old folk and mingle blood with our women. It is no more than our duty as Norwegians to protect our race and to eliminate those who fail us.

Jo Nesbo

#34. The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

Bruce Jay Friedman

#35. If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what's worth extra effort and what's not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired.

Jason Fried

#36. Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius

#37. If the atheist believes that suffering is bad or ought not to be, then he's making moral judgments that are possible only if God exists.

William Lane Craig

#38. Even as it surreptitiously dipped into that dimension for its own hidden judgments, judgments which it forcefully and vehemently made and then flat-out denied making. "Empirical knowledge alone is true knowledge" - and where is the empirical proof for that?

Ken Wilber