George Washington Quotes

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

There's always going to be people saying stuff.

Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.

I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.

I don't really change much; there's not much I can do about the judging in front of a home crowd.

I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don't listen to them.

People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

She doesn’t usually back down that easily.” “Maybe she’s got class.” Eve snorted. “Trust me,” she said. “That girl’s got no class at all.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

I'm not very comfortable with watching my performances. I don't particularly find a great joy in it. Everything is the process of making it, of getting it, getting the job, saying yes to the job. Those are the joys. Making it is the greatest joy. And then, you have to show the bloody thing. You have to show and tell, be judged. But I don't listen. I don't pay much attention. I hear the rumblings of greatness or the arrows of discontent and harsh words. Then you go, "Oh God. Why?"

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.