Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

I think I have good judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.