Juliette Lewis Quotes

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

We are all hypocrites but introspective people use this insight to moderate their self-righteousness. There’s an inverse relationship between introspection and intolerance.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

I'm not one of those people who easily judges something or someone.

You're wrong means that I don't understand you, I'm not seeing what you're seeing- and I'm not seeing all of you there is to see. But there is nothing wrong with you. You are what you need to be, doing what you need to be doing, and although I may take steps to protect myself of others, I do not know all and therefore am literally inadequate to judge.

I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.