Snap Judgment Quotes

#1. People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.

William Missouri Downs

#2. It's very easy to listen to one comment and make a snap judgment.

Heather Dubrow

#3. Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

Stephen Richards

#5. You think I'm daffy?"
"Don't be offended by a snap judgment. It's true of anyone who cares about squirrels.

Edward W. Robertson

#6. Our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary.but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

David J. Lieberman

#8. A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#9. Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...

Charles W. Leadbeater

#10. The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

Michael Specter

#11. Because I was there that day, and so were you.

Faith Sullivan

#12. To narrate is to create, whilst to live is merely to be lived.

Fernando Pessoa

#13. If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.

Vanessa Hudgens