Anton Chekhov Quotes about Judging

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov

Eye, Successful, Judging

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

Anton Chekhov

Two, Judging, First Impression

"Ivanov". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

Anton Chekhov

Writing, Play, Judging

Anton Chekhov's letter to A.S. Suvorin, May 4, 1889.

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

Anton Chekhov

Two, Judging, First Impression

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA