"This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?"
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"To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself."
"Typically to get toward a productive outcome in negotiation you have to make the initial move of genuinely exploring someone's model. If you don't, it is unlikely that they will be willing to explore yours. And if you genuinely explore and understand theirs - without judging it - they will be willing to explore yours. Once they reach that point, they are primed to explore the productive combination of both models and won't be as obsessed about trying to make sure their model prevails."
"We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes."
"Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity."
"We're all the harshest judges of ourselves."
"I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses."
"I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself."
"Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves."
"It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life."
"I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day."
"Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors."
"In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution."
"You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals"
"Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge."
"It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed."
"The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without."
"Judges should interpret the law, not make it."
"I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody."
"Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished."