Quotes About Evaluation

Perhaps he may, sir. There's no knowing what a 'orse can carry till he's tried.

CHAPTER XIX 'WHO VALUED THE GEESE?

It is so easy to condemn — and so pleasant too, for eulogy charms no listeners as detraction does.

If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality

No one has ever questioned the credentials of a critic who writes a rave notice.

They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated.

Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved.

And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

One does not replace a blown fuse-until one knows just why it has blown

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.

It was difficult to tell if she actually had a good singing voice because she added so many flourishes and trills that she sounded like a bag of demented parakeets.

I have been found wanting, Natalie thought; I have made myself unnacceptable and am not worthy.

Like the saying goes: the dead look the way they eat! And you ought to see that woman's husband

Valor não é quanto uma coisa custa, rapaz. Isso é lenda. Valor é quanto alguém está disposto a pagar. Ou ser pago

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

God only knows how much of a man there will be left of you when you take stock of yourself twenty years from now

Reflection enables us to step back, to see our perspective on a situation as perhaps distorted or blind, at the very least to see if there is argument for preferring our ways, or whether it is just subjective.

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.