Quotes About Evaluation

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture and evaluate and assess and criticize mercilessly.

I have a tough time judging myself.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Finally, put it aside. Put it out of your head at least a week. You want it to set up like jello. And when you pick it back up, ask yourself, What haven't I said? How might someone else involved have seen it differently?

To my mind, a small bit of catshit equals a catshit sandwich, unless I know where the catshit is and can eat around it.

It's not so important to know the difference between bitter and sour, skunky and yeasty, tarry and burnt. "Who cares. They're both terrible. Ew. But if you're a brewer, it's extremely important.

She warns me about equating complexity with quality. "All that stuff you read on wine bottles, in wine magazines, where they throw out a dozen descriptors? That's not sensory evaluation. That's marketing.

panel applicants at the initial screening were asked not only to describe the cat foods but also to rate them according to how much they liked them. (The average rating, I am gobsmacked to report, fell between "like mildly" and "neither like nor dislike.")

I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so worrisome to me.

His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations:

Never defend yourself. Make no excuse. Defensiveness and excuses are unbecoming to you. Smoothly recognize your wrong, apologize, and give thanks to God. Then you will be evaluated as a great person. The more you run away, the smaller you become. How dare you transfer your responsibility to others! A great person is one who can take all the responsibility alone.

Personne n'a le droit de nous juger avant la fin, parce que nous les hommes, on est capable du meilleur comme du pire

Then, select which things were effective in the conversation, and which things you can toss out the window.

Good resume," he said, not sounding all that impressed. "But what's he like?" Oh, God. This conversation was going to go on.