Personal Judgment Quotes

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

People seem very arrogant when they say 'I'm right and you're wrong', but in practice we all believe we're right. We have a staggering arrogance in our own belief. That can be tempered by not being 100% certain; by being provisional. No matter what the debate is, very few people have the modesty to suspend judgement on a whole range of things; most intelligent people have an opinion and are expected to have an opinion by other people - but it always requires making a personal judgement that goes way-beyond your expertise. We do it all the time.

I think everybody knows if they played a good or a bad game.

the most dishonest individual I ever met in my life.

In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

I know I have pretty good instincts.

I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

You know when you play a good game and you know when you play a bad game.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Take advice, but don't take orders.

There is … no minister who would not think it safer to act by orders than from his own discretion.

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them.

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions.

If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions