Quotes About Evaluation

Menard —recuerdo— declaraba que censurar y alabar son operaciones sentimentales que nada tienen que ver con la crítica.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

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.

She'd also begun to feel like this might not be the best place for her after all. "I

The revolution has achieved nothing – History will be the judge of that

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

The tendency to compare oneself with others further lowers self-esteem. Every encounter with another may be turned into a negative self-evaluation.

People virtually never get two chances to make a good first impression. It is also a lot harder to reverse a bad first impression than to make a good first impression.

the retrospectoscope, that handy tool of the wags and pundits, the conveners of the farce we call M&M—morbidity and mortality conference—will pronounce your decision right or wrong. Life, too, is like that.

Our companies, communities, and countries don't necessarily suffer from a shortage of novel ideas. They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas.

you have the potential to be a Formula 1 champion. It is easier to measure something than to understand what it is you are measuring.

one must judge each situation and each action, not according to its "comfortableness" but according to whether or not it is likely to bring one nearer to that goal.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Lovallo and Kahneman offer a useful prescription to repair this cognitive bias: Get the data. Track down actual figures on launch failure rates for your company, your industry, other industries or projects similar to yours. The numbers will be fascinating – and sobering.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.

It's so easy for anyone to be like, 'Logan Paul just ended his career. He's done.' But the only person who will ever decide whether that's true is me. Like, if I sleep for the rest of my life, maybe.

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.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

I don't pay attention to critics.

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.