Martina Markota

live in the Bronx, grew up in the Hudson valley, NY. i am a mathematics major at NYU, and i am studying for my bachelors of science in holistic health at the Global College of Natural Medicine. i recomend anyone to take the Landmark Forum. www.landmarkeducation.comthese quotes are from a book called "the power of maturity" by Binstock____________________________________________________ ______ "a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts." ______________________________________________________ "the next time you find yourself at a dinner party or bridge table engaged in general conversation, watch out for a quick and authoritarian judgments of events and assessments of individuals based upon insufficient and garbled data, and carelessly gathered products of the rumor mills. the "facts" upon which deep judgments are made are frequently not facts at all. if they are facts, they are generally not put into proper perspective. they are often taken far out of context, and certainly the one who sits in judgment has no knowledge of the motivations of the judged. not only is it difficult to pass a correct judgment upon someone else; it is just as difficult and sometimes more difficult to judge one's own self fairly. no man is entirely nothing or entirely something. no one is so low that he cannot rise, nor anyone so high that he cannot sink. we see a man momentarily; how do we know if he(our ourselves)is on the way up or on the way down?, or what his mood may be doing to him? at least you judge yourself to yourself. if your judgment is to be spoken or written-communicated to another mind-how much more careful it must be! a judgment based on nothing more than impression, or a rumor, or upon one chance meeting, can be very destructive of another person's reputation. Slander hurts three; he who is slandered, he who hears slander, and the slanderer himself. "