Sylvie Guillem Quotes

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.

If you judge, investigate.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.