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Judging Quotes

We’ve collected the best Judging Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Bob the Drag Queen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Max Heindel, Joe Flacco, Luvvie Ajayi. Use them as an inspiration.

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Queer clubs are safe spaces because no one’s judging you for what the rest of the world is judging you for there.
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell
3
When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.
4
What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might‘ve been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don’t know that. That’s the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.
5
When I set out to write ‘I’m Judging You,’ I wanted to create something that was both timely and timeless. But I didn’t know how timely this book would be until we, the people of the United States, elected a walking Cheeto to the highest office in the land on November 8, 2016.
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Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he’s qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes judging women on the basis of their looks, which he seems to believe amounts to the sum of their character.
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I started off as a contestant and I realise that it’s not easy being scrutinised by experts. And when you are a judge you need to ensure you are judging fair. Both require a lot of hard work and commitment.
8
I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t ultimately start judging you and your choices.
9
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.
10
Some people love to run, and it’s therapy for them, and some people can’t stand it. And I just feel like there’s so much in our society where you’re judging yourself based on what you think you need to do.
11
I purposely don’t put my family on there, I don’t put my kids on there. Because I think these days everybody wants to share everything – and then they get upset when people judge all their stuff. So, I figure let them judge things that you’re okay with them judging.
12
Whether I’m riding a horse or driving a car, I’m feeling them, judging what they’re doing, trying to work out what I can take them up to.
13
At one time in my life, I stood in queues for ‘Indian Idolauditions, and I got eliminated at Top 8 or Top 9. I could have never imagined that one day I will be judging this show where I was a contestant myself.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
15
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
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Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.
17
I can’t judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
Charles Manson
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The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
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I don’t really change much; there’s not much I can do about the judging in front of a home crowd.
20
I feel like everyone has been judging me based on ‘Drip on My Walk,’ and that’s cool, but that was the fun record I did. That doesn’t define me, but for some reason, that’s how the world looks at it.
21
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
22
A word of advice is, when you judge someone, it doesn’t define the person that you’re judging. It defines you.
23
I do a bunch of Y7 yoga, which is amazing because it’s dark, and nobody‘s judging you.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
25
People get to know you better on the small screen, be it while judging or hosting a show.
26
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.
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I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.
Robert Shapiro
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Voice work is the best – no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody’s judging you.
29
I was offered a few shows, but the money didn’t work out, but I’m not very keen on judging such shows. I’m happy in my space as a composer.
Pritam Chakraborty
30
It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
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I would deactivate every single comment on any social media. You should be able to post what you want, say what you want, be what you want without anybody judging you.
32
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
33
Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.
Jerry Lawler
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Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved.
35
I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.
36
I am a singer. You love me or hate me based on my music. If you are judging me based on my nationality and religion, you are a racist. This is very offensive. I cannot encourage that.
37
I am uncomfortable judging people, as we – members of the film fraternity – are judged more than anybody else.
38
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
39
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn’t.
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You, as a manager, are judged on results and not on the work you do and the performance of the team. Imagine paying a guy a huge amount of money and then judging him not on the things he can control, but on those he can’t.
41
The core constituency that Republicans must satisfy in high court nominations is the party‘s social conservative base, which fundamentally cares about issues, not diversity, and has accepted white men who practice the judging it admires.
42
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
Imre Lakatos
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
George Pierce Baker
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I wouldn’t want people judging me for things I did at 18.
45
When I am making a movie, I am very casual; wearing chappals, and have my hair tied. However, when I am judging a show, I take care of myself and get the makeup and hair done.
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When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.
47
Unlike some, I don’t claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America’s unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
Walter Russell Mead
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If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.
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For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, ‘Brown‘ must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.
50
I don’t know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who’s better than the other person shouldn’t be part of why we’re doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.
51
I think judging a shuttle is different everywhere, so there is a drift, but you have to be used to it. We can’t complain, as I think it is same for all.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind – it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.
54
Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta’s, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.
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Nashville is a boys’ club of redneck conservative ideas. But they’re ready to embrace gay people. I never felt for one second that someone was judging me. Some people are like, ‘Oh, I love gay people’ in that ‘I have lots of black friends’ kind of way. It’s awkward, but you have to appreciate that they’re trying.
Shane McAnally
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I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.
57
Judging from the letters I’ve received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.
Georgette Heyer
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Everything is harder when you are a Nordestino. You have to work harder than anybody else because people will be judging you with much less mercy than the other players.
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I want people – boys and girls – to be sat at home watching me alongside the likes of Rio Ferdinand or Frank Lampard, thinking that it’s normal, that we all know what we’re talking about, and that they’re not judging me at home just because I’m a female.
60
When the rules of judging skating in international competition changed in 2004 with the goal of making judging more transparent, one of the consequences was the rewarding of skaters who attempt more challenging technical elements in the pursuit of ever more points.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain’t judging nobody.
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I can’t play a character that I am judging.
Rachelle Lefevre
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Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren’t real.
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I’ve been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I’ve lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn’t gonna change.
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I wouldn’t approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can’t rely on what’s in their heart. They don’t determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.
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I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn’t always the perfect one that’s been covered in pesticides.
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Judging on ‘The Voice’ or the ‘X Factor UK‘ would be great; that would be ideal, really. But I don’t think it’s going to happen.
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I was definitely always the bigger girl and kind of weird. I didn’t make friends very easily and I was a big reader, so I was very antisocial, and I knew that people were judging me.
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You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are.
71
Instead of judging people, we need to pray.
72
If I were ever to grace the pages of ‘Vogue,’ I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.
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I’m a pretty organised packer, laying out everything beforehand, as I don’t like to take extra stuff. I’ve got a good eye for judging how much I can stuff into one suitcase. I’ve often not brought the right items, but I’d never avoided a chance to shop, unlike most men.
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I am happy judging shows and making films. It is a good thing to do a film and then take up a show, considering it also keeps your popularity alive.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They’re discovery devices, not performance devices – you’re watching things the way a cat does. You’re not judging. You’re there to witness something.
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Once you’re playing someone, you shouldn’t be judging them in any way. That’s what being an actor is – it’s having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you’ve committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
77
My primary passion is film-making. That’s the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else – from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show – is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.
78
If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.
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My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era – patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.
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You’ve got to quit judging people just because they have an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ in front of their name. We don’t do that in Oklahoma.
81
Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.
82
Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet.
83
When I wrote ‘The Good Body,’ I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn’t value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn’t live in it.
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Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it’s complicated to find balance.
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I’m really shy and I’m scared of people judging me.
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Dedication plays a key role and in ‘India‘s Next Top Model,’ that will be a major trait on which I will be judging the girls.
87
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
Anthony Collins
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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
Sidney Hook
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I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.
90
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
91
I will be doing a bit more television, but, you know, aside from ‘MasterChef‘ which is judging, I really want to do some travel with something that can really show up my creativity or something I can be creative on.
92
If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don’t listen to them.
93
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
94
Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn’t give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
95
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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You’re either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.
97
One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.
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Obviously, I do feel I’m scrutinised a bit too much and people are judging me. All I do is keep my head down and work, work, work.
Cressida Bonas
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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.
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Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.
101
Be it judging or be it acting, yeah if something interesting comes my way even if it’s judging for another show, I’ll be open to it.
102
If you spend time with people, you understand where they’re coming from and you respect them more than if you’re judging from a distance.
103
I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t ultimately start judging you and your choices.
104
Not only in our family, where our relatives keep putting us down, but even in this modern urbanized culture, we girls put our fellow girls down by judging them.
105
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
106
Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.
107
It’s quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.
108
When you are an athlete, it’s difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.
109
With music, you’re laying it all out there. They’re judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you’ve always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you’ve only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.
110
Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.
111
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancementdepending on people – will be judged on where they come out on that question.
112
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
113
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
114
Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like ‘presentation‘ and ‘mechanics‘ and judging each one on its own merits.
115
My parameter of judging a script has not changed over the years. I still go for a script where the story interests me. Yes, there are times where I might go wrong; say, out of five scripts, I might go wrong on one.
116
Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We’re living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they’re having 25 conversations.
117
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
118
I’m not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
119
One common way of judging whether housing‘s price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
120
Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.
121
The finest lesson I’ve learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I’m judging myself.
122
A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob’s turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
123
We’re not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.
124
Most people know no other way of judging men’s worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
125
My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then… never judge.
126
We give you characters we’d feel very comfortable judging, and then go: ‘Oh yeah? Watch this’.
127
I grew up with a strong set of values – and one was never judging someone by how much money they had.
128
I see a lot of people judging me and my rookie season, but I’m not really worried about struggling. I know I’m only going to get better.
129
Another way of judging the value of a prophet‘s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
130
One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.
131
I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say ‘No’ to parts they should have said ‘Yes’ to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t do that.’ I’ll do it all.
132
Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.
133
Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.
Pola Negri
134
If a journalist comes to you with a great story, one of the first questions you ask is how did you get it. How you got it is relevant to judging its accuracy and preparing yourself for any legal challenge.
135
All of my babies know that I preach all day… I ain’t trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain’t judging nobody.
136
It’s up to God to do the judging. You haven‘t walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
137
Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.
138
I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.
139
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.
140
One drawback about judging on ‘MasterChef’ is that, as the series gets busier and busier and the food gets better, you take bigger and bigger mouthfuls of all that rich, sweet, fatty food, and we really put on weight.
141
We need to stop judging individuals based on their race, profession, gender, religion, or anything other than their own individual behavior and character.
142
As far as I can tell most people in football do not take colour into account when judging people. I certainly don’t.
143
I feel like when people judge me they’re not judging me, because they don’t know who I am.
144
Everyone else is too busy judging themselves to be thinking badly of you.
145
Well, honestly I have never been very good at judging scripts.
146
I eat carefully because people don’t want to see a large person judging cakes. They’ll think to themselves, ‘That’s what happens when you eat cake.’
147
I prefer men who are queer. Not gay men, but queer men – guys with an open mind. Bisexual men, because they’re able to understand the different elements of the body without judging that I don’t conform to a certain ideal.
148
I do not morally judge any character and resist judging anybody in real life, too.
149
Anytime we’re interacting with someone, we’re judging them, we’re sharing expectations, we think they didn’t live up to those expectations.
150
How many thick black women are there singing whatever I’m singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can’t really judge someone else for judging me!
151
People should stop judging other people on the basis of their weight or how they look because I don’t think being a certain body type is as bad as being evil or cunning. We have bigger issues in life to look after and correct.
152
A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare it to other musicians.
153
I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.
154
People are always judging you based on where you’re from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you’re going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It’s all about being authentic.
Andre Carson
155
I think judgment is from within. It’s not a God judging. Someone who is nasty – they’re the one who has to sleep at night.
156
When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
157
Judging people is not an awesome job, it only demands being level headed and a good listener and observer.
158
Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.
159
And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.
160
I don’t go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people’s approval.
161
At Skate Canada, we have a history of very professional judging that’s very fair, and we’re proud of that.
162
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish… That’s the worst model I’ve heard of in my life. It’s just idiotic. Why wouldn’t you just wait for the good ones?
163
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one’s own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
164
When I say there should not be a BET channel or a Black History Month, I’m saying we deserve more. I just hope people understand that I’m not judging; I’m coming from experience.
165
As a player, that’s not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another player. As a quarterback, I don’t want another quarterback tweeting about my performance or judging me in that way.
Eli Manning
166
The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It’s like, ‘Why is she wearing this?’ or ‘Why isn’t she wearing that?’ or ‘Why does she talk like that?’ That’s the worst because they’re judging for no reason.
167
The industry has a standard way of judging actors: they do ten films, they get X price, and they get this number of awards, seen at page three parties and all that – that is how they measure success. I don’t do it like that.
168
I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.
Emil Zatopek
169
Without judging anyone, communication is so important for a coach.
170
I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.
171
I don’t come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It’s not that funny to me. It’s funny to other people, and I’m not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There’s so much pain in it.
172
I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.
173
You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.
Joy Page
174
It’s a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.
175
You can drive your own self crazy. You don’t have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That’s really the thing that gets you.