Quotes About Evaluation

No. 2 pick, you're supposed to do a job - you're supposed to turn the franchise around. And I don't think I did it to the best of my abilities. I didn't live up to that standard.

You're judged on Super Bowls, and that's the standard.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

You set standards so things can be measured and done at a championship level.

It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

I always have separated myself from my critiques of collections. My judgment is not about whether I would wear it - but how the collection stands in the lexicon of an established designer. As I am a maximalist, not a minimalist, I don't wear Armani or Celine - but I so appreciate what they have achieved.

David Luiz has to work with the others if he deserves to play; otherwise, he will stay on the bench or in the stands.