Quotes About Evaluation

If I've had a bad game, I know I've had a bad game, and I don't mind hearing it.

The heart of science is measurement.

In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

There are very few jobs where you're held up to public scrutiny.

I'm very hesitant to call somebody a racist, a sexist.

When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it's a great opportunity to say, 'Hey, this is really good, but we can do it even better.'

I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.

It's all well and good when it's going good and people have an opinion on how well you're playing, but it's the hidden things they don't see.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

I thought my time in TNA went about as well as it possibly could for what it was. With me being as young as I was and them trying to highlight the x division like they did.

I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

One does not say that a book 'ought not to have been published' merely because it is a bad book. After all, acres of rubbish are printed daily and no one bothers.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be "This book is worthless", while the truth about the reviewer's own reaction would probably be "This book does not interest me in any way, and I would not write about it unless I were paid to.

Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?

Criticism is not some inscrutable, mysterious process. It's just a matter of: (1) noticing ourselves responding to a work of art, moment by moment, and (2) getting better at articulating that response.

But, as applied to me, this teaching did not satisfy.

There is a powerful case for the market mechanism, but it is not that markets are perfect; it is that in a world dominated by imperfect understanding, markets provide an efficient feedback mechanism for evaluating the results of one's decisions and correcting mistakes.

Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

Poetic delirium has its place in nature. It justifies nature, consents to embellish it. The refusal belongs to clear consciousness, evaluating whatever occurs to it.