Quotes About Evaluation

My boy," returned my father, "you must not judge by the work, but by the work in connection with the surroundings. Could Giotto or Filippo Lippi, think you, have got a picture into the Exhibition? Would

Without a confession of faith the church's evaluation of its ministers is haphazard and shallow at best; and the church will be in great danger of laying hands on novices and heretics, all because it does not measure candidates for the ministry by a broad and deep standard.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

Blown about by every wind of criticism.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.

Your personality may be comparing your new potential reality to the one you are living and find something lacking.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?