Normani Kordei Quotes

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

Do not hear one and judge two.

We don't want anybody to come off half-cocked and make a decision about what we're only in the middle of doing, right? So if there's shots of me out there, then somebody's going to say, "Oh, that's not the right way. That's not this and that." It has to be seen in context.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Mr. Starr, you’re the expert on unfair questions. If you tell me it’s an unfair question, I’ll withdraw it.

It’s a lot easier to be critical of something if you don’t know much about it.

It is better to be ignorant than to half know something.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

I wouldn’t say she is open-minded about her views of the Middle East so much as empty headed.

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.