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When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.

When I had the job of police commissioner, 20 years ago, I was more sensitive, more cognizant of complaints and concerned about public opinion. I've learned to do what I think is the right thing. That lessens the impact of criticism. You get used to a pressurized environment and expect it every day.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

When I teach criticism, the first thing I say, and this sometimes pisses off younger - I mean, students, is that, opinions are the least part of criticism. We've all had the experience of going with a friend to a movie or a concert and you leave the theater and one of you loved it and one of you hated it, and that doesn't mean that one of you is an idiot. That's the way things work.

When I told my wife she was lousy in bed - she went out - she got a second opinion.

When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.--T-SHIRT

When I was being bullied, I had to learn not to judge myself by the opinions of intolerant morons. Then I felt much better.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some kind of opposing force to say, "that's all right, that's their opinion," or, "I may have screwed that one up but I'll do better the next time," then you're screwed.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House, who championed the project form the outset, told me she was surprised by the response. After this, editors began asking my opinion about which Latin American writers ought to be translated. I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld]

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.