Quotes About Evaluation

Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.

You know, John Wall and Vick are very similar. I'm not disputing their talent. I mean, Michael Vick and John Wall are fun to watch. But building my franchise around him, leadership position?

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

Whenever I'm offered a film, I think of a Friday and ask myself if I would go and watch that film or not.

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn't really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

There are things you can learn about certain players while watching them in action in a friendly.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

Criticism is frightening.

I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.

It required what a friend calls "putting every word on trial for its life":

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.

First impressions are always unreliable.

Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.

For I underestimate myself, and that itself means an overestimation of others

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

No lo haces de forma intencionada, son las circunstancias las que te empujan a ello, pues quieres demasiado a Amalia y deseas verla superior a todas las demás; pero al no hallar nada suficientemente elogiable en la propia Amalia para justificar ese pedestal, rebajas a las demás mujeres para lograr tus propósitos.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.