Quotes about Judgment

You can become a channel and a source of great inner strength. But you must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you; all that you have chosen without choosing and value without evaluating, accepting because of someone else's extrinsic judgment, rather than your own; all your self-doubt that keeps you from trusting and loving yourself or other human beings.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

The Puritan Thomas Brooks once wrote, "We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."[113

Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs.

I'm always my hardest critic.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

If people want to criticize me, that's their issue.