Ron Atkinson Quotes

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

We all judge people.

When something in the sweet science doesn't look right, most likely it isn't.

There are people who hate me, there are people who like me, and they're both right. I think people hate me for the right reasons, which is my politics and what they discern to be my personal attitudes.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

Referees and linesmen are killing teams.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

I don't think it's fair, the way that the establishment is treating Donald Trump. I will be honest.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain.

At this point, a lot of people have made their mind up about me one way or another. I'm sure there's a certain segment of writers who won't ever give me the time of day, hate me, don't get me, don't think I'm good, or whatever. I guess that's fine. It's only an opinion. There are other people who do get it, and can be objective. I could be wrong, but a lot of people, except for really young people, have made up their minds one way or the other.