Eugene McCarthy Quotes

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

Eugene McCarthy

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• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Behavior

• Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Judgment

• It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Technology
  • Judgment
  • Myth

• Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Great
  • Judgment

• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • True

• Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Good
  • Real
  • Instrument

• The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Strong
  • Action
  • Judging

• The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change, but of the renewed life of the body and of the general judgment day.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Facts

• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Control
  • Judgment
  • Generosity

• Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Free

• I have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Judgment
  • Felt

• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  

  Robert Frost
  • College
  • Judgment
  • Refuge

• I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • I Hope
  • Occasion
  • Incline

• Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace
  • I Hope
  • Distant

• The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Way
  • President
  • Instrument

• Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Judgment

• He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Choose
  • Judgment
  • Imitation

• They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Death
  • Opportunity

• This sin weighs heavily upon the Body of Christ and will call down the judgment of God. In Germany there is an even greater sin weighing upon us Christians and that is the crime our nation has committed against Israel, God's chosen people. Six million Jews were killed; because of this the wrath of God is upon us. As Christians we are especially to blame. For when the terrible crime occurred and millions of Jews were tortured with inhuman cruelty and killed at the hands of German people, the Church in our country remained silent. The Christians did not stand up as the Danes did and protest the injustice. With the exception of a number of individuals the church members were not driven by the desire to help the Jews at all costs. Nor did they ring the church bells the night the synagogues were burnt down. The Church gave no reaction - an indication that she was dead. Because we were silent, we heaped guilt upon ourselves, and we were struck by the judgment that later descended upon our nation. Our churches were destroyed. Germans were killed by the thousands in bombings. Refugees thronged the streets, and the Iron Curtain divided our country.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Church
  • Sin
  • Crime

• A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Mind
  • Blessing
  • Consists

• Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

  

  William Odom
  • War
  • Destroyed
  • Hippie

• I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Judgment
  • Instrument
  • I Hope