Quotes About Evaluation

A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

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 kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.

Everybody has those certain fighters they follow and that they really put on a high pedestal. They want to give the most shine that they possibly can. They look for any reason to break down a fighter's performance to when it isn't their favorite fighter in any positive thought.

I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.

I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'

Government research has to go through peer review.

You're never as good as people say you are and you're never as bad as people say you are. You're always in the middle at some stage.

No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

I'm not a fan of analytics. When I was a kid, I couldn't tell you what percentage Allen Iverson shot, or Michael Jordan.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.