James Thomas Fields Quotes

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

People are not stupid.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

If you would judge, understand.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

I know all the critics.

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

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

I don't like making comparisons. You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted, and suddenly you're in trouble.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

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

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.