Quotes About Evaluation

When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.

If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

I'm only as good as my next appearance and my next match.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

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

One of the challenges mature companies face is evaluating performance and furthering the business.

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

It would be arrogant of us for me to say everything at McDonald's is perfect.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

How do you measure your value?

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

Sometimes you have to stop something to really measure the passion that you have, and either you feel like moving, or you don't, and then maybe it's time to stop.

I believe you accomplish what you measure.

I just know that if you put my film on with anybody else's in the league, it'll measure up.

I try not to measure myself against other players.

You get measured by how fast you run or how high you can jump or how you can dribble, and I just wasn't that kind of player.

It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of measuring success.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.