A Quote by Ernest Hemingway

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
American - Novelist
July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Wei Wu Wei

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

Adam Haslett

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

Louis Kronenberger

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. Be the patience you seek. Be the tolerance you seek. Be the compassion you seek.

Bryant H. McGill

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

Quentin Tarantino

It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.

Marianne Williamson

The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.

Robert Kiyosaki

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Ernest Hemingway

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job.

Arundhati Roy

I don't want to get into predicting how Judge Gorsuch would vote on the Supreme Court as a Justice Gorsuch. But I will say that those of us who've seen him in court as a judge, those of us who have worked with him as I have on a appellate rules committee, understand that this is a man who brings independence and integrity to the job.

Neal Katyal

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.

P.D. Ouspensky

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

Shonda Rhimes

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.

Taylor Sheridan

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.

Billy Graham

You get the information, and it's not your job to judge it or not judge it. You adapt, and you do it. That's what we do as actors. We're just as surprised as the viewers, sometimes.

Holland Roden

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