Quotes About Evaluation

Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

To be sure that we are not just falling for the Halo Effect, we really need a different measure of performance altogether—one that assesses individual skill directly rather than by inferring it from outcomes that might be determined by forces beyond the individual's control.

It sounds as if we're assessing the quality of a work of art in terms of its attributes, but in fact we're doing the opposite—deciding first which painting is the best, and only then inferring from its attributes the metrics of quality.

The Halo Effect, in other words, turns conventional wisdom about performance on its head. Rather than the evaluation of the outcome being determined by the quality of the process that led to it, it is the observed nature of the outcome that determines how we evaluate the process.6

The problem, in fact, is not that there is anything wrong with evaluating processes in terms of outcomes—just that it is unreliable to evaluate them in terms of any single outcome.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

High School Is Life's Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

At the judgement day a man will be called to account for all the good things he might have enjoyed and did not enjoy.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.