"We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on judgment and judges
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on judgment and judges
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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

Murdoch, Iris on judgment and judges   

"There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

Camus, Albert on judgment and judges
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"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."

Burger, Warren E. on judgment and judges   

"Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."

Dandemis on judgment and judges
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge."

Foucault, Michel on judgment and judges   

"Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance."

Franklin, Benjamin on judgment and judges
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"It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment."

Kempis, Thomas on judgment and judges   

"Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on judgment and judges
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"The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind."

Zilbergeld, Bernie on imagination   

"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Wilde, Oscar on imagination
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"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."

Thoreau, Henry David on imagination
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"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."

Meredith, George on imagination   

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."

Keats, John on imagination   

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."

Kettering, Charles F. on imagination   

"Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?"

Miller, Henry on america
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"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."

Miller, Henry on america
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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Miller, Henry on america
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"The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives."

Miller, Henry on greatness
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"No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes."

Miller, Henry on innovation
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"I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!"

Miller, Henry on inspiration   

"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."

Miller, Henry on life
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"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

Miller, Henry on life
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"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on life
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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Miller, Henry on ambition
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"There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him."

Miller, Henry on fear
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"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."

Miller, Henry on faith
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"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."

Carson, Rachel on imagination
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"The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building."

Collier, Robert on imagination   

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way."

Miller, Henry on leadership
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination   

"The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal."

Miller, Henry on disasters
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"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."

Miller, Henry on decay
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"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on acceptance
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