Quotes About Evaluation

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

The best is to go into a train station that I've built and buy a ticket. The guy in the ticket booth might recognize me, which is a marvelous feeling, but it might be that he doesn't and I go in like any other passenger, except that I enter with a critical eye, looking to see how it's held up.

The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark.

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

They're all good-looking men - I can't think of a male presenter who isn't a good-looking bloke - but, you know, they're not judged by their suits and ties.

We have to keep a very tight check on quality.

When we're on the "me" plan, what others say about us has great power. A friend tells us we look good—our mind soars. A colleague tells us we're not pulling our weight at work—our mind sinks.

Don't Judge People by Their Outfit...Judge by Outcome...

consideres, quid tuae rationes postulent.

women are most likely to be evaluated based on their contributions, while men are most likely to be evaluated based on their potential—nebulous criteria that can result in a less qualified man getting the job.

The emphasis is always on what you should do, never on what you should stop doing.

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations. You don't have to do this verbally. You can also judge another person in your hand, comparing his or her behavior to what you would do, usually in a way that shows you to be superior.

women are most likely to be evaluated based on their contributions, while men are most likely to be evaluated based on their potential—nebulous criteria that can result in a less qualified

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations.

No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.

The reader is the final arbiter.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32

The most important factor in admissions decisions was in fact the interview.

The interview is never just a formality. It can absolutely make or break your chances of acceptance.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough