Allen Frances Quotes

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

Allen Frances

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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

• 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

• 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

• It doesn't mean that they can't get the judgment against you, but as a practical matter, the creditor is not going to be able to collect on it.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Matter
  • Judgment
  • Creditor

• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • History
  • Attention

• 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

• Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Judgment
  • Safe
  • Separate

• 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

• A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Dog

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

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Free

• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  

  Robert Frost
  • College
  • Judgment
  • Refuge

• I think there is no divide today between the U.S. and Europe as far as the main objectives of Iraq.

  

  Javier Solana
  • I Think
  • Europe
  • Iraq

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Judgment

• Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Funny
  • Habit
  • Judgment

• Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

  

  Sophocles
  • Lies
  • Ignore
  • Judgment

• To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

  

  Sophocles
  • Anger
  • Judgment
  • Gentle

• 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

• Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Judgment
  • Court

• If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Power
  • Judgment
  • Command

• God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Gods
  • Infinite

• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Revolution
  • Values

• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Praise
  • Enjoying

• Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

  

  Allen Frances
  • Judgment
  • Diagnosis
  • Objectives