Quotes About Evaluation

One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, 'I behave this way, and I achieve results. Therefore, I must be achieving results because I behave this way.' This belief is sometimes true, but not across the board.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

When you work in TV you have to develop a thick skin, and I have certainly grown used to criticism.

Everything I do is criticized, scrutinized, sometimes praised. Everything is always looked at like hey what's next. It's made me grow a much thicker skin.

Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.

I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

What I would like is to at least have a discussion with the coach, that he tells me what he thinks. I have to know.

I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.

I am quite self-critical, I try to keep focused on what I need to do better, and in the final third of the pitch I know I can do miles better.

When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he said no. I was a burnt-out litigation solicitor in my thirties, hating my life, and his cancer made me re-evaluate it all.

In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.

Bio Life Technical's strategy of providing technical due diligence by expert professors from core disciplines and world class experts working with interdisciplinary institutes, such as Imperial College's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will enable a more thorough scientific evaluation of the technology.

In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.

There is a new way of seeing him now. Because of that, there has been a lot of scholarship in Hemingway that is more thorough.