Quotes About Evaluation

I had the time to reflect on my life.

I asked him why he turned us down, and what I could have done better.

Cynics criticize, and winners analyze" was another of his favorite sayings. Rich

Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.

In all his battles, Haig never seems to have appreciated that there came a time when he had obtained or achieved all he could hope for and that to press on would either throw away his success to date or result in terrible losses.

On the other end of the phone sits the employer who decided to call you in for an interview. Three thoughts are running through his mind: Can you do the job? Will you do the job? Will you work out in their organization so they can manage you?

The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.

Ritual of Personal Reflection.

They secure their identity by who they are externally. They evaluate their achievement by what they've collected versus by the character they've cultivated

Only a human being can step out of himself and analyze what he is doing right and what he is doing wrong. A dog

For the rest, who can be fit to judge of these differences? As we say of debates about religion, that we need a judge who is not attached to one or the other side, exempt from choice or affection, which is not possible among Christians, so it is likewise in this case.

Siskel's classic question, "Is this movie better than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

is not easy to ascertain what an algorithm actually is, simply by examining its output.

it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss.

While exorting us to judge other cultures in their own terms, he [Said] asks us to judge Western culture from a point of view outside---to set it against alternatives, and to judge it adversely, as ethnocentric and even racist.

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

But if one fears or despises so much the philosophical foundations of a book, and if one demands so insistently the right to understand nothing about them and to say nothing on the subject, why become a critic?

La sanción del crítico no es el sentido de la obra, sino el sentido de lo que dice sobre ella.

It is more than a framework for evaluation. It is a framework for motivation and a framework for achievement.

was. Is she ours? French? British?" For long seconds Caleb studied the incoming fleck. "Can't tell." "How many? We got the whole British

Such is my opinion of your abilities as a critic," Hamilton addressed him directly, "that I very much prefer your disapprobation to your applause.

some thought she should have received much less.