Quotes About Evaluation

When delivery fails, efforts to figure out why tend to focus exclusively on delivery. That's understandable, but it's a mistake, because the root cause of why delivery fails often lies outside delivery, in forecasting, years before delivery was even begun.

Megaproject development today is not a field of what has been called 'honest numbers'.14 It is a field where you will see one group of professionals calling the work of another not only 'biased' and 'seriously flawed' but a 'grave embarrassment' to the profession.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

He that always blames, or always praises, is no patriot.

For fifteen years, the Fabers had nurtured the hope that Leslie could overcome her disabilities, but the new evaluation suggested that her development would be limited and that she would require some form of supervision for the rest of her life.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

when we are open to face the true value of an object or person, we can sometimes be disappointed!

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.

For study of the good and the bad in woman two women are a needless expense.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.

Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

had to look back before you moved forward.

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.

Any war or conflict you enter where you are likely to lose more Americans and expend more treasure is something worthy of very detailed debate. There ought to be a lot of skepticism. There ought to be a lot of discussion.

I look at each nominee. If they suck, I vote against them. If they're worthy, I vote for them.

But it's hard for people to give you a chance until you prove to them that you're worthy.