Quotes About Assessment

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

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 don't think people realize how good of a shooter I actually am.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

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

You know when you play a good game and you know when you play a bad game.

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

My mind has been long fixed to bow to the judgment of the world, who will judge me by my acts, and will never take counsel from me as to what that judgment should be.

After the interview ended, Stone and I were ushered out. Alex had an interview with Ted Nugent to conduct. In the elevator, Stone scrutinized me. "When we try to assess threats," he said, "the kooks are almost always wearing snowsuits in 90-degree weather.

Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do.

como todo escritor, medía las virtudes de los otros por lo ejecutado por ellos y pedía que los otros lo midieran por lo que vislumbraba o planeaba

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it. Let us stop him at the top of the hill on some excuse, and have a good look at him.

There's no way to know how good a player you are except by measuring against others.

Oddly, having sex with men is meant to dispel fear of being raped, as though women who have an accurate assessment of the dangers of rape culture are hysterics who just need sex.

In other words, as long as the matter in question is assessed on the basis of the same fundamental assumptions with which one started out, the errors in the account will remain standing until some disaster occurs to reveal the defect.

Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.

Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.