Ann Rule Quotes

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

I think the therapeutic part of acting is allowing myself to step into another human being's shoes. It allows me the ability to release judgment, if I had any judgment to begin with. It's an opportunity to understand rather than to stand outside and point fingers.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.