Quotes About Assessment

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

You can get a million different opinions from different people, but I always like to watch myself to see what I did and how I performed because the best critic is yourself.

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think 'where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.'

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don't need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad - because I know it.

Paolo Guerrero is a good player - and Mladen Petric also. I think both are really good and even better than me.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.

There's always loose points that people bring up, which is great, and I think that's why you read criticism is because you want to see what worked and what didn't work, and certainly you have to filter it because there's a lot of people who just love to troll.

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.