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“You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.”

Giving Ability Judging Amount Doctors Praise Undertaker

Author:Evan Esar

“We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.”

World Done Action Ability Common Judging Succeed Spokes Words And Actions

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.”

People Thinking Ability Decision Judging Healthy Direct Intelligent Access Sufficient

Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.”

Reading Force Sides Ability Study Successful Judging Investing Tape Pulling

Book:Studies in Tape Reading

Source: Studies in Tape Reading

“The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.”

Ifs Thinking Men Country States Character Ability Doubt Judging Lows South Fallen Disgrace Benches Judiciary Federal Judges

Author:William Howard Taft

“Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.”

“You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.”

“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”

Men World Life Success Ability Judging Depends Tests Profession Success In Life Vocation

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.”

People Persons Ability Style Color Judging Hair Skins Sight Disability Clothings Blindness Skin Color

Author:Patrick Henry Hughes

“It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.”

Understanding Ability Mistake Serious Judging Limits Serious Mistakes

Author:Sterling W Sill

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”