Quotes About Appraisal

Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.

I hate reading reviews.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

I don't read reviews.

My policy is to not read any reviews.

I don't read reviews anymore.

I don't like to read reviews.

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.

The only true test of whether a stock is "cheap" or "high" is not its current price in relation to some former price, no matter how accustomed we may have become to that former price, but whether the company's fundamentals are significantly more or less favorable than the current financial-community appraisal of that stock.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

You can never tell what ships are worth.

I think everybody knows if they played a good or a bad game.

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

The critics noticed me as a performer only with 'Dor.'

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Personnel decisions are noisy. Interviewers of job candidates make widely different assessments of the same people. Performance ratings of the same employees are also highly variable and depend more on the person doing the assessment than on the performance being assessed.

Second is the rise of higher criticism

Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it.

There are variations in the quality of deviation; not all divergence from the past is culturally significant. Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance. Greater significance attaches to those variations that bring the tradition into view in a new way, allowing the familiar to be seen as unfamiliar, as requiring a new appraisal of all that we have been—and therefore of all that we are.

Philip Lombard, summing up the girl opposite in a mere flash of his quick moving eyes thought to himself:

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.