Quotes About Evaluation

I am convinced it is a mistake to find an artist human outside his work. If you cannot find him human in and through his work, you are better not to know it when you come to formulate an opinion of his public value.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears.

Change must be measured from a known base line.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

History is a stern judge.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?