Quotes About Evaluation

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Painting, n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Among the smaller duties in life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.

By their fruits ye shall know them.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?

If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.

When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

Nije vrijeme došlo da ginemo, nego da se vidi ko je kakav.