“I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanJudgmentFairs Author:Lady Sovereign
“I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?” ThinkingImportantAchieveJudgmentImportant Things Author:Rahm Emanuel
“We're going to build a wall. Donald Trump never said it's going to go from one end of the country, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and he'll use good judgment about that. And there are ways, through tax and regulation policies, that we can - and immigrant fees - that this could be paid for. I have not studied the details of it but, absolutely, I think that is possible.” ThinkingWaySaidEndsCountryUsePolicyWallTrumpTaxesJudgmentPaidDetailsImmigrantsRegulationPacificFeesGood Judgment Author:Jeff Sessions
“In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.” PeopleThinkingMenWantStreetsEffectsJudgmentSpotsAdsSophisticatedElectorateEndorsements Author:Roger Ailes
“As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.” ThinkingYearsPlayJudgmentVery GoodObjectives Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.” IfsThinkingSometimesResultsFailureSucceedJudgmentFacultyUndertakingsHinderOwing Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.” IfsThinkingMindTwoDifferentMatterLightEffectsProduceJudgmentAgreeBottomPerceiveAttributesDeceivedRemarksPenetrate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles.” ThinkingHas BeensMatterUnderstandingPrinciplesSeriousJudgmentAvailableIntuitionSensibleIgnoredSubjectiveCritiqueAssessmentHamiltonGuessworkGeoengineering Author:Noam Chomsky
“Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.” ThinkingMindPracticeSpecialTalentJudgmentReasoningFaculty Author:Allen W. Wood
“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.” ThinkingNeedsHumansSelfMatterReasonEnoughHelpingSituationMoralCasesSpecialHuman NatureParticularDutyJudgmentTestsRegardFocusedAriseAgentsExceptionPreferenceTemptedMaximsCanonMoral Judgment Author:Allen W. Wood
“The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.” ThinkingProblemFormAnswersResultsMoralTheoryJudgmentGood JudgmentUtilitarianismWrong AnswersConsequentialism Author:Allen W. Wood
“We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War. And I think we need to abide by that experience and our good judgment coming out of these catastrophes. We need to support that.” ThinkingWorldNeedsFirstsWarHardLawDifficultSupportJudgmentInternationalWar Of The WorldsComing OutCatastropheSecond World WarInternational LawGood Judgment Author:Jill Stein
“I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.” ThinkingNeedsTrumpBehaviorJudgmentEvidenceVotersJudgedAmerican Voters Author:Tim Kaine
“There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason and necessity. Because of this I think he has probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death are concerned.” ThinkingBelieveReasonWholeFeelingsMightI BelieveReligiousInfluenceMovementJudgmentConcernedBasesLife And DeathCommunistMao Author:Edgar Snow
“I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayImportantDifferentIssuesEnvironmentJudgmentConcernedBlindObsessionObsessedDifferent WorldsImportant Issues Author:Bell Hooks
“I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.” ThinkingWorldRealitySchoolTermPersonalityJudgmentTestsCome UpSurroundFabulousEnrichmentNeighbourhoods Author:Pierre Trudeau
“If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.” IfsThinkingFilmCrimeJudgmentCommit Author:Bruce Willis
“The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to eliminate it. I'm not quite convinced we should eliminate it completely. I think it's important to have a final check be somebody other than the Supreme Court. But given that it's there, we should take it seriously. And taking it seriously says they should exercise their judgment according to the moral values, the principles that are part of our constitutional tradition today. And those principles say equality.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantTodayValuesGivenMoralPrinciplesCollegeExerciseJudgmentProjectsTraditionCourtFinalsConvincedSupremeChecksSupreme CourtMoral ValuesElectoral College Author:Lawrence Lessig
“I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.” ThinkingArtTwoDifferentUseRealityJudgmentStandardsDouble Standard Author:Ai Weiwei
“Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as this clear spiritual water, is poured into rusty vessels called human beings, and so sometimes the benevolent principles of faith can get distorted as positions are hardened.” ThinkingHumansSometimesSpiritualWaterHuman BeingsPrinciplesClearPositionPureJudgmentScientistAspirationVesselBenevolentHardenedClouded Author:Richard Dawkins
“I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsLongGovernmentTermAbilityPrinciplesProgressBalanceIntegritySpeechJudgmentElectionDemocraticChecksLong TermServingPhasesFreedom Of SpeechHave ConfidenceStay TrueFreedom Of Religion Author:Barack Obama
“In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.” ThinkingWantImportantDifferentDoneCharacterRunningJobsCasesJudgmentElectionImportant ThingsDebateBarackPresidentialOpponentsSeatsAcceptableGood JobPresidential ElectionIncumbentsReelection Author:William Kristol
“We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.” ThinkingWarRealMovingColdJudgmentNotionCurrentsCold WarThreateningDisagreementExaggeratedMoving Back Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.” IfsThinkingWantWritingFirstsStudentsJudgmentPassingPassingsNervousListenersThinking Of YouStutteringPassing Judgment Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.” PeopleThinkingWantTeamStupidTrumpJudgmentAdultsWorried Author:Tim Kaine
“I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a forecaster I am something very different. I am a professional bystander. I have opinions about the future, of course. But my whole posture is to be detached and to identify what I think will happen and not allow my judgments of what should happen to get involved.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindDifferentWholeHappensCertainCoursesAttitudeOpinionParticularInvolvedJudgmentOutcomesGet InvolvedPostureDetachedBystandersFuturist Author:Paul Saffo
“Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.” ThinkingWellsSongNextBeliefGrewJudgmentSettingSettings Author:Adrian Marcel
“I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.” PeopleThinkingBigsJobsStuffActingAttitudeStyleJudgmentAtmosphereChairsCopiesKickingExperimentation Author:Ben Wheatley
“I think my brother is good coach,because he's Jim. He's a good decision maker. He makes good judgments. He's got a vision. He's got a picture of what he wants it to look like. He's not worried about what other people think. He's not afraid to be himself. He's a good person and he cares about people. He wants them to do well so that they can shine, not for any other reason than that they can be their very best.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsLooksPersonsReasonCareDecisionVisionBrotherJudgmentShiningCoachesWorriedMy BrotherMakersNot AfraidGood PersonGood DecisionGood JudgmentDecision MakersGood Coaches Author:John Harbaugh
“I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.” ThinkingMenWorldWritingFeelingsCareUnderstandingIntegrityJudgmentConvictionOld ManI CareTraitorReally True Author:Dan Burt
“I'm not going to make a judgment on plastic surgery because I don't have to yet. I mean, I'd like to think I'll feel great about myself and age gracefully, but then I think, Well, what if I do want a little bit of something? I'm open to being open.” ThinkingMeanAgeJudgmentWhat IfSurgeryPlastic Surgery Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature to children. That judgment has got to be based on quality rather than quantity. It's the same old problem that continually plagues American culture. I would rather have children playing their own games out of doors in the sunlight than getting the misrepresentation of literature as given by Walt Disney.” ThinkingChildrenBookProblemCultureLiteratureQualityJudgmentQuantitySunlightPlagueAmerican CultureWaltChildren Playing Author:Frances Clarke Sayers
“We need to realize that we are observers and creators, and in every moment that we are observing our world, we're constantly remaking it at every instant, and that we have to understand too that every last thought we have, every judgment we hold, is having an effect whether it's conscious or not. So of course the most important thing of all is to be aware of what we are thinking and to realize it has an effect on the world around us.” ThinkingWorldImportantMomentsRealizingJudgmentConsciousInstantObserving Author:Lynne McTaggart
“For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly about different businesses. So it's always a continuing learning experience where you can apply what you know, of course, by way of judgment and by way of numerical analysis. You're always investing in new businesses, which is a learning experience in itself. I think that is a wonderful thing and I think it makes for intellectual challenge and for continued personal growth. That, for me, is the highlight of this job.” ThinkingWorldDifferentGrowthChallengesWonderfulJudgmentIntellectualPersonal GrowthEquityLearning ExperienceNew Business Author:David Bonderman
“I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy with the person, it stands in judgment of them. It's a very externalized word.” ThinkingJudgmentEmpathyQuirky Author:Zoe Kazan
“Most men I know adore women, and I am including gay men. I think studies on jury selection show that the biggest critics of women - people less likely to trust their character or judgment - are women.” PeopleThinkingMenCharacterStudyGayJudgmentCriticsAdoreJuryGay Men Author:Gene Weingarten
“I think being appropriate is what you have to do. I think these trend things are terrible, like 'Ten Things You Must Have.' Why must you have them? They're a 'must' for some people, but for some they're not. It's silly. Again, it's all a matter of knowing who you are. You'll never run out of ideas once you do. But it's hard work and some people don't want to put in the time or effort. So they don't. And that's their issue. I don't sit in judgment on how they look.” PeopleThinkingRunningEffortHard WorkTerribleJudgmentWho You AreSilly Author:Iris Apfel
“I think Alexander McQueen was very, very special. When I went to his first show, I couldn't speak because I was so enthralled. I was saying to myself, "What am I looking at here? What's going on here?" Because, I'm really a loner. I've been a loner for a long time, because I guess I prefer that. For me to get the best out of myself, I have to trust my judgment. And so while watching an Alexander McQueen collection, I would feel isolated. Even though I was surrounded, I would still feel isolated by what I was looking at, if that makes sense.” ThinkingLongSpeakSpecialJudgmentMake SenseLonerMcqueen Author:Polly Allen Mellen
“At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic and sympathetic to the film. I would never pretend to have the discerning and acute critical eye that a lot of the great critics in our business do have. I don't look at it as being a critic or placing a judgment on a film, and I do think, how do you decide which film is best anyway? It's always a little bit of a mixed bag. But, I think it is just a collective group of people coming together to honor the work of an artist - that's how I think of it.” PeopleThinkingEyeTogetherFilmArtistHonorJudgmentGood ThingsCriticsSympatheticEmpathetic Author:Patricia Clarkson
“I think you should identify with your character, but plenty of people like themselves and hate themselves. You just have to find out what's truthful for the person you're playing. When people talk about that, I think what they're saying is that as an actor, as Peter, you don't want to make a judgment that comes from your worldview about the character. Your judgments should be coming from the place of the character, and within that space, sure, you could love or hate yourself or whatever you think is most appropriate.” PeopleThinkingCharacterHateJudgmentPlentyTruthfulHate YouWorldviewLove Or Hate Author:Peter Vack
“I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not measured by Scripture, then we'll be found lacking, since Scripture communicates divine revelation to us.” ThinkingDivineAuthorityJudgmentCatholicCommunicateAcceptedScriptureRevelations Author:Matthew Levering
“I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will work out. That's what drives me. I'm not looking for legacy or history books or whatever. I know what we've done here has saved a significant number of lives. The burden is not on me. It's on the politicians who made the decisions to limit what we're doing. They're the ones who are going to pay a price, in my judgment, if crime significantly increases.” ThinkingMeanBookDoneDecisionCrimePoliticianJudgmentWork OutBurdenSignificantLegacyRight ThingThings Will Work Out Author:Raymond Kelly
“Angela Merkel embodies Germany's 20th century fate. It is not up to me to pass judgment on her place in history, but I believe that she is the chancellor of Germany's reconciliation with Europe. She stands for a Germany for whom globalization has been a success and which accepts its role in foreign and defense policy. I thought the way she dealt with the refugees was courageous. I think she is the chancellor of reconciliation.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveAcceptingFatePolicyJudgmentCourageous20th CenturyRefugeeGlobalizationReconciliation Author:Emmanuel Macron
“The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to teach citizens how to think better, how to think critically, how to tell truth from falsehood, how to make a judgment about when they're being lied to and duped and when they're not, how to evaluate scientific teaching. Losing that training of citizens is an extremely dangerous road to go down.” ThinkingTeachTeachingDangerousJudgmentLosingTrainingPassionateFalsehoodLiedBeing Lied Author:Joan Wallach Scott
“I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.” ThinkingSometimesEmotionalJudgment Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I remember when I came out of an exam thinking I had done well and then I had a clue that maybe one answer was wrong, I remembered that I rather stop knowing, stop thinking about it, appreciating life instead. So first, it was just a memory. But then I realized that in life, it's a much more general sentiment - that instead of waiting for other people's judgment, I'd rather focus on my own feelings, that everything is fine. To go on with my life rather than anticipating other people's judgements that might be negative.” ThinkingDoneFeelingsRememberWaitingMemoriesFocusJudgmentNegativeAppreciateI RealizedJudgementSentimentsClueRemember WhenExam Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer. I still think there's a huge problem about how we can actively engage a wider range of women. I'm not saying women must be a separate audience - I'm just responding to the reality that the majority of people who do read science magazines are male. That's not a value judgment; it's a statistical fact.” PeopleThinkingWritingProblemRealityValuesAudienceJudgmentCancerMedicalBreast Cancer Author:Margaret Wertheim
“It was our goal to dig into the characters and really try to find out why they think the things they think and why they do the things they do - and we got some amazingly candid and revealing interviews - but it's not my job to offer summary judgment on those interpretations.” ThinkingTryingCharacterGoalJudgment Author:Marshall Curry
“I think it's interesting that there's always a dark cloud hanging over my character, in every movie. Even in Fat Man and Little Boy, where it's a real dark cloud. In Mask, it's more the judgment of others, but it's still a threat.” ThinkingMenRealCharacterDarkInterestingBoysJudgmentThreatMaskLittle Boys Author:Laura Dern
“I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.” IfsThinkingMeanChildrenYoungTurnsFatherGrowsChurchMy OwnChristianityGrowing UpBearsJudgmentTraditionHistoricalCriticsObserversYoung ChildrenDisheartenedEpiscopalians Author:Jon Meacham