Relative Judgment Quotes

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Bad principles are not good substitutes for no principles. For to eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you're a phenomenal actor, but the guy next door can think you're a horrible actor, and neither of us is wrong and neither of us is right. It's just a matter of opinion.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.