Quotes About Evaluation

Infinite Jest' is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.

He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.

Saint-Beuve, para mí el más interesante de los críticos franceses, nos enseñó a hacernos una pregunta crucial acerca de cualquier escritor al que leemos a fondo: ¿Qué piensa el autor de nosotros?

If you can't justify the rationale of an order to yourself, don't make your subordinates do it. Re-evaluate your reasons and find another method.

We generally get the juries we deserve.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they've told me. Do you think that's crazy? "No," I said, shaking my head, "I'd guess your method works quite well.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

The only way to understand what's really fair is to take a long-range view of things.

Of course, you shouldn't ignore the challenges that individual team members may have presented along the way. If people were repeatedly late or uncooperative, let them know that you noticed that behavior. Help them understand that they will have a better time in the future if they can mend their ways. In your final report, make it plain that you would be glad to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of individual team members with future project leaders. Take

By embracing decision-focused planning, companies will almost certainly find that the quantity and quality of their decisions will improve.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success. Originally

Sometimes we avoid checking in on our progress because we don't want to acknowledge how little progress we've made.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback analysis. Whenever you make a key decision or take a key action, write down what you expect will happen.

Chesterton wrote this of a "fence or gate erected across a road": The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

T he test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.

I am sure every movie I've made, even as an actor, had multiple test screenings. And I am sure there have been horrible things written about me. But I never have to see them!

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.