Quotes About Evaluation

If you have a horse that isn't winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics.

Andrew Symonds went on TV to criticise my leadership. I'm sorry, but he is not a person to judge anyone on leadership.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium.

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

I probably sound like a broken record every time I do a race, but I always look for the bad. That's just kind of how I work.

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Let's call a spade a spade - this Kaka of Real Madrid is not the same Kaka we used to know.

The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it.

Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do.

The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

Everyone judges, it's a human nature.

When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting.

Whether we are trying to buy a packet of chips or getting to know a person for a potentially important relationship, its nice to have an overview of what it/he/she contains. - Of A Sense of Self

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.