Quotes About Evaluation

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.

man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you?—do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?" Villefort's

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use the nervous ystem in a way which is against its survival structure, we must expect non-survival. Human history is short, but already we have astonishing records of extinction.

He says the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell?

Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.

The boys teach; the Scoutmaster tests.

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

May it please your honour, crimes are ghastly or agreeable only by comparison.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade?' Jedediah

check of how training went that day. Review your workouts. Find one thing you did well. It does not need to be a big deal.

When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about an investment strategy: 1. What is the risk of losing money following that strategy over the long term? 2. What is the risk that your chosen strategy will perform worse than alternative strategies over the long term?

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be