Quotes About Evaluation

You can play a gig as a band and not know that they hated you; with standup, after every line, you know.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.

Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.