Quotes About Evaluation

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

I've had friends of mine hire people that I know well or that have worked for me, and I haven't gotten the call to do a reference check. That's almost the most basic thing one can do to assess them.

If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.

I measure the impact I make by how harsh the attacks are. The harsher the attacks, the better I am doing.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

I think, as a country, that we can be quite harsh on ourselves.

Well, I'm always a bit harsh about the things I'm doing.

Criticism is for real. The amount of hate that I get is.

It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it always looks better five years later.

Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.

Everybody hates critics.

What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from.