Gwen Ifill Quotes

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

It is very difficult for us to assess intent, so we have to work back from actions.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Remarks are not literature.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

If you would judge, understand.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I know all the critics.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind.

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

I do wish that reviews were less like book reports. There was an era when reviewers had something to say about a book: when they painted context and drew conclusions. Many reviews these days are little more than plot summary.

If we are going to ask questions of the defensive guys, then we are going to ask questions of the guys at the top end as well.

The game is about making the right decisions.

You have to make your decision based on the content.

God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.