Quotes About Evaluation

Qualifying an opportunity at the outset helps you determine whether it's worth pursuing at all, and, if it is, with how much effort.

Does it go on the "keeper" pile or does it go on the "discard" pile? That's the first question your prospects are probably going to ask, because it's likely that the reviewers are staring at a pile of submissions much larger than they can reasonably handle.

All he did from freshman year through sophomore was react -- sneer, laugh, dismiss, find fault, demean -- a young man's version of critical thinking.

Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don't love you or your work.

clarity about who one is and what one's work is, is inextricably bound up with one's place in a tribe—or a family, or a nation, or a race, or a sex, or what have you. And the clarity is necessary for the evaluation of the self and it is necessary for any productive intercourse with any other tribe or culture.

When I teach creative writing, I always speak about how you have to learn how to read your work." —Toni Morrison

A lot of us will be able to show how God's gifts benefited us. But that's not the question. The issue with a steward is, how did the King's business fare under your management? Is the King better off? Was His agenda furthered?

Nietzsche's genealogical investigations do not undermine all values and all modes of evaluation equally. There are past tendencies, as well as present ones ... that Nietzsche esteems highly, and it is out of these estimations that his own ideal of the future emerges.

It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish.

It is quite possible that I have underestimated you, Gwyneth. But that's no reason for you to overestimate yourself.

So I counted

It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth; so for me at least it was not earth that criticised elfland, but elfland that criticised the earth.

Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale

Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length in yesterday's commentary). I was wishing that Hamid had written a different book than he had. How I might have written this story is completely irrelevant. It would be like dismissing The Godfather because I wished it were a musical. The novel needs to be considered on its own terms.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Almost always, the work an author thinks is their worst turns out to be quite good. Sometimes it's even considered their best stuff.

Unless he suddenly turns out to be a total psycho, he's a keeper

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.

What a way to go," he said. "Everyone putting your life under the microscope. What if we paid that kind of attention to people while they were alive?

one of the most important therapeutically effective factors is subjecting yourself to the objective judgment of others.

the more I can keep a relationship free of judgment and evaluation, the more this will permit the other person to reach the point where he recognizes that the locus of evaluation, the center of responsibility, lies within himself.

When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications are in the direction of the social control of the many by the few.