Quotes About Evaluation

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

Looked at absolutely, we must frankly acknowledge that we have fallen very far short indeed of the high ideal we should have reached. Looked at relatively, it must also be said that we have done better than any other nation or race working under our conditions.

90% of everything is crap.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Here is another great contribution of the low-hanging fruit. You and many other people get to see what is working or not working on a relatively small scale. With this collective insight and wisdom, you are able to proceed more wisely with the larger change later. You get greater

On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.

a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Sometimes I wonder if a friendship in which the common ground is all that is bad about each person is a friendship worth having.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

everywhere a good and a bad book

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

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing wildly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

I needed a check-up from the neck up.

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.