Quotes About Evaluation

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

It's a new endeavour for me. I've never run a territory. I've never talked publicly to people. I've got to try it just to see whether I like it.

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.

I don't think 'X Factor' would put someone in front of the camera on purpose if they were ill. I don't think that's something they would do. There's psychologists who test out all the contestants before they go on.

Because of the Internet, we're all such authorities on every subject and can chat about all sorts of things. But when push comes to shove, when our ideas are put to the test, that's when we find out who we really are.

If you don't perform, and you're part of the team, whether you're playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that's something you can't really get away from. If you don't perform, you will be criticised.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.