Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.

I judge people based on merit, on personality.

You can only give someone your best opinion.

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

It's always easy to judge from afar

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

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.

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.