Quotes About Evaluation

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's going to be a certain amount of criticism because that's kind of what happens.

I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his criticisms in mind the next time I am making a film. Even if someone writes a great review about my film, I don't want to be affected by it.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it.

Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.

Being asleep is a great way to avoid being critical.

else. Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

Criticism must be like natural history, with absence of moralism

But you can't be saying I should walk away from everything I have worked for all my life? No, I am not. What I am saying is that we need to take a much closer look at what we have been calling our life. To what purpose? To see if it is really ours. Once we know what is authentically our own, then we also know what to keep and protect and what to let go.

The next time there's something that you can't live without, wait for a week and then see if you're still alive.

Valora el impacto que tendrán tus actos presentes dentro de un año o más. Un resultado negativo, o incluso neutro, te hace perder el tiempo y tus recursos, te conduce al desencanto.

When telescopes work, everyone is an astronomer, and the world is full of stars. When they don't, everyone whips out their microscopes, and the world is full of flaws. The reality is that you need both microscopes and telescopes to achieve success.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Pode ser um pecado pensar mal dos outros, mas raramente sera um engano

Last week, for the first time, I read Herman Melville's ''Moby Dick.'' It really amazed me by its badness.

Todo homem prudente, ao lembrar-se de que a vida é curta, deveria dispensar uma hora ou duas, de vez em quando, para um exame crítico de suas amizades. Deve pesá-las, repensá-las, testar se ainda contêm algum metal. Algumas poderão sobreviver, talvez com mudanças radicais em seus termos. Mas a maioria será varrida de seus minutos e ele tentará esquecê-las, assim como tenta esquecer seus frios e pegajosos amores do ano retrasado.

Damn it, it wasn't quite fresh enough!