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Antony Jay Author
Judging

"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Judging

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Judging

"Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well."

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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
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"The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law."

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