Quotes About Evaluation

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

I have the mindset of a coach. I have to think, what would a coach think? How would a coach feel if I'm playing a guy a certain way?

I don't consider any film of mine bad. I give all my films the importance they deserve. I look at all my roles with the same kind of seriousness.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought. Next

I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought.

What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place?

what remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything?

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.

It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to credit your own opinion.

When surrounded by their peers, most men have two sets of reactions—the real ones and those designed for evaluation by their fellows.

These are probably dogs

To accumulate wealth and hold on to it, one needs to know how to select the right investments and reject the losers; how to research and evaluate various investment opportunities; and how to judge the skills and integrity of those who position themselves as professional investment experts.

In every area of thought we must rely ultimately on our judgments, tested by reflection, subject to correction by the counterarguments of others, modified by the imagination and by comparison with alternatives.